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The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS) of the ICS voted in April 2016 to proceed towards a formal golden spike (GSSP) proposal to define the Anthropocene epoch in the geologic time scale. The group presented the proposal to the International Geological Congress in August 2016. [8]
The Anthropocene, if it gains formal recognition, would follow the Holocene epoch, which began 11,700 years at the conclusion of the last Ice Age. "Clearly the biology of the planet has changed ...
Called the Anthropocene — and derived from the Greek terms for “human” and “new” — this epoch started sometime between 1950 and 1954, according to the scientists.
The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction, [109] [110] is an ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch (with the more recent time sometimes called Anthropocene) as a result of human activity.
First suggested in 2000, [67] the Anthropocene is a proposed epoch/series for the most recent time in Earth's history. While still informal, it is a widely used term to denote the present geologic time interval, in which many conditions and processes on Earth are profoundly altered by human impact. [ 68 ]
Some scientists say the “Lunar Anthropocene” epoch started in 1959 when the first spacecraft sent by humanity landed on the moon. And it’s just the beginning.
Within the Anthropocene epoch, the Great Acceleration can be variously classified as its only age to date, one of its many ages (depending on the epoch's proposed start date), or its defining feature that is thus not an age, as well as other classifications. [4] [5]
Researchers believe that a new epoch may have begun on the Moon back in 1959, when humans first affected the surface. Scientists Think We’ve Officially Entered the ‘Lunar Anthropocene’ Skip ...