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100 _aZalasiewicz, Jan
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245 _aA formal Anthropocene is compatible with but distinct from its diachronous anthropogenic counterparts: a response to W.F. Ruddiman’s ‘three flaws in defining a formal Anthropocene’/
260 _bSage,
_c2019.
300 _aVol 43, issue 3, 2019 : (319-333 p.).
520 _aWe analyse the ‘three flaws’ to potentially defining a formal Anthropocene geological time unit as advanced by Ruddiman (2018). (1) We recognize a long record of pre-industrial human impacts, but note that these increased in relative magnitude slowly and were strongly time-transgressive by comparison with the extraordinarily rapid, novel and near-globally synchronous changes of post-industrial time. (2) The rules of stratigraphic nomenclature do not ‘reject’ pre-industrial anthropogenic signals – these have long been a key characteristic and distinguishing feature of the Holocene. (3) In contrast to the contention that classical chronostratigraphy is now widely ignored by scientists, it remains vital and widely used in unambiguously defining geological time units and is an indispensable part of the Earth sciences. A mounting body of evidence indicates that the Anthropocene, considered as a precisely defined geological time unit that begins in the mid-20th century, is sharply distinct from the Holocene.
650 _a Anthropocene,
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650 _a Holocene,
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650 _achronostratigraphy,
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650 _ageological time scale,
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650 _aEarth sciences
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700 _aWaters, Colin N
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700 _aHead, Martin J
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700 _aPoirier, Clément
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700 _aSummerhayes, Colin P
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700 _aLeinfelder, Reinhold
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700 _aGrinevald, Jacques
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700 _aSteffen, Will
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700 _a Syvitski, Jaia
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700 _aHaff, Peter
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700 _aMcNeill, John R
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700 _aWagreich, Michael
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700 _aFairchild, Ian J
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700 _aRichter, Daniel D
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700 _aVidas, Davor
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700 _aWilliams, Mark
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700 _aBarnosky, Anthony D
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700 _aCearreta, Alejandro
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_dLondon: Sage Publication Ltd, 2019.
_tProgress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment/
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856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0309133319832607
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