Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch

Jaia Syvitski; Colin N. Waters; John Day; John D. Milliman; Colin Summerhayes; Will Steffen; Jan Zalasiewicz; Alejandro Cearreta; Agnieszka Galuszka; Irka Hajdas; Martin J. Head; Reinhold Leinfelder; J. R. McNeill; Clement Poirier; Neil L. Rose; William Shotyk; Michael Wagreich; Mark Williams

doi:10.1038/s43247-020-00029-y

Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch

Jaia Syvitski, Colin N. Waters, John Day, John D. Milliman, Colin Summerhayes, Will Steffen, Jan Zalasiewicz, Alejandro Cearreta, Agnieszka Galuszka, Irka Hajdas, Martin J. Head, Reinhold Leinfelder, J. R. McNeill, Clement Poirier, Neil L. Rose, William Shotyk, Michael Wagreich, Mark Williams

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Original language	English
Article number	32
Number of pages	13
Journal	Communications Earth & Environment
Volume	1
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00029-y
Publication status	Published - 16 Oct 2020

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

105205 Climate change
105112 Historical geology

Keywords

GLOBAL PHOSPHORUS CYCLE
SEA-LEVEL
QUATERNARY SYSTEM/PERIOD
PLEISTOCENE SERIES/EPOCH
ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS
SEDIMENT FLUX
RECENT TRENDS
NITROGEN
CLIMATE
TRANSFORMATION

UN SDGs

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Syvitski, J., Waters, C. N., Day, J., Milliman, J. D., Summerhayes, C., Steffen, W., Zalasiewicz, J., Cearreta, A., Galuszka, A., Hajdas, I., Head, M. J., Leinfelder, R., McNeill, J. R., Poirier, C., Rose, N. L., Shotyk, W., Wagreich, M., & Williams, M. (2020). Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch. Communications Earth & Environment, 1(1), Article 32. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00029-y

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Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

Keywords

UN SDGs

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