The Great Acceleration is real and provides a quantitative basis for the proposed Anthropocene Series/Epoch

Martin J. Head; Will Steffen; David Fagerlind; Colin N. Waters; Clement Poirier; Jaia Syvitski; Jan A. Zalasiewicz; Anthony D. Barnosky; Alejandro Cearreta; Catherine Jeandel; Reinhold Leinfelder; J. R. McNeill; Neil L. Rose; Colin Summerhayes; Michael Wagreich; Jens Zinke

doi:10.18814/epiiugs/2021/021031

The Great Acceleration is real and provides a quantitative basis for the proposed Anthropocene Series/Epoch

Martin J. Head
, Will Steffen
, David Fagerlind
, Colin N. Waters
, Clement Poirier
, Jaia Syvitski
, Jan A. Zalasiewicz
, Anthony D. Barnosky
, Alejandro Cearreta
, Catherine Jeandel
, Reinhold Leinfelder
, J. R. McNeill
, Neil L. Rose
, Colin Summerhayes
, Michael Wagreich
, Jens Zinke

Department of Geology

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	359-376
Number of pages	18
Journal	Episodes: journal of international geoscience
Volume	45
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2021/021031
Publication status	Published - Dec 2022

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We thank the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, where the late Paul Crutzen worked for many years, for elucidating Nielsen's (2021a) comment that Crutzen had endorsed the results of his work. Prof. Crutzen clarified that he did notice and acknowledge but did not review or endorse the paper 'The Great Deceleration and proposed alternative interpretation'. MJH acknowledges support from a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant. Simon Turner kindly supplied Figure 11. This article has benefitted from stimulating ongoing discussions with colleagues in the Anthropocene Working Group. We are most grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and to Brian Marker as Associate Editor for helpful guidance.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 14 Life Below Water

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

105123 Stratigraphy
105904 Environmental research

Keywords

STRATOTYPE SECTION
BIODIVERSITY
IMPACTS
CLIMATE
MARINE
RECORD
POLICY
FUTURE
POINT
GSSP

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Head, M. J., Steffen, W., Fagerlind, D., Waters, C. N., Poirier, C., Syvitski, J., Zalasiewicz, J. A., Barnosky, A. D., Cearreta, A., Jeandel, C., Leinfelder, R., McNeill, J. R., Rose, N. L., Summerhayes, C., Wagreich, M., & Zinke, J. (2022). The Great Acceleration is real and provides a quantitative basis for the proposed Anthropocene Series/Epoch. Episodes: journal of international geoscience, 45(4), 359-376. https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2021/021031

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The Great Acceleration is real and provides a quantitative basis for the proposed Anthropocene Series/Epoch

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