The anthropocene: A new epoch of geological time?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1938, 2011, Pages 835-841

  Zalasiewicz, Jan ^a   Williams, Mark ^a,b   Haywood, Alan ^c   Ellis, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropocene; Environmental change; Geological time; Human influence

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET);

ANTHROPOCENE; ANTHROPOGENIC CHANGES; EARTH'S CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOLOGICAL HISTORY; GEOLOGICAL TIME; GLOBAL CHANGE; HUMAN INFLUENCE; ON CURRENTS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 79952328409     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0339     Document Type: Article

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