The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

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Volumn 351, Issue 6269, 2016, Pages

  Waters, Colin N ^a   Zalasiewicz, Jan ^b   Summerhayes, Colin ^c   Barnosky, Anthony D ^d   Poirier, Clément ^e   Gałuszka, Agnieszka ^f   Cearreta, Alejandro ^g   Edgeworth, Matt ^b   Ellis, Erle C ^h   Ellis, Michael ^a   Jeandel, Catherine ⁱ   Leinfelder, Reinhold ^j   McNeill, J R ^k   Richter, Daniel De B ^l   Steffen, Will ^m   Syvitski, James ⁿ   Vidas, Davor ^o   Wagreich, Michael ^p   Williams, Mark ^b   Zhisheng, An ^q,r   Grinevald, Jacques ^s   Odada, Eric ^t   Oreskes, Naomi ^u   Wolfe, Alexander P ^v   more..

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^f JAN KOCHANOWSKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

ⁱ LEGOS   (France)

^j FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^k GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^o FRIDTJOF NANSEN INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^p UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^q Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^r BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^s Institut des Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement   (Switzerland)

^t UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^u HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CARBON; CONCRETE; ELEMENT; FOSSIL FUEL; ICE; NITROGEN; PLASTIC; RADIOISOTOPE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE;

ANTHROPOCENE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARTH; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FALLOUT; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOCENE; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMBUSTION; DEVICE MATERIAL; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOLOGICAL TIME; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORUS CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DOMINANCE; ANALYSIS; ASTRONOMY; BIOTA; BUILDING MATERIAL; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE;

ALUMINUM; BIOTA; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; EARTH (PLANET); FOSSIL FUELS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; ICE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLASTICS; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 84955124949     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aad2622     Document Type: Review

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