Open Access UCL Research: A practical solution: the Anthropocene is a geological event, not a formal epoch - UCL Discovery https://t.co/wlEcXp7Hvc
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Pluto is NOT a planet? Who decides? Likewise: The Anthropocene began in 1950. Who decides? @theIUGS https://t.co/kejYeIX9Ky Better: the Anthropocene is an ongoing geological Event without a simple start time. https://t.co/xmqegMvtiM https://t.co/rUNN0CIB
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RT @erleellis: Which side are you on? The Anthropocene is... An Ongoing Event: https://t.co/rUNN0CIBZM An Epoch starting in 1950? http…
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Great question. (I’ve been asking it for 8 years!) I argue either Anthropocene will either be event or Eon. Not epoch because if lasts long enough to be that will be something more. (But we won’t know for at least a million years.) https://t.co/Z3AtmQF5Nv