Anthropocene. Yes or no? The ongoing story.

[Ludwigia]

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/05/world/anthropocene-epoch-rejected-scn/index.html

[rocket]

thanks for sharing

but, lets wait a million years, I am sure the anthropocene epoch will become part of the history

[piranha]

Call it whatever you like....the inhabitants for which it was named, are really making a mess of this precious planet.

No wonder the gazillionaires are all scrambling to outer space....where they will no doubt, screw that up as well!

[JBkansas]

When should the anthropocene start? We've been driving extinctions for tens of thousands of years.

Edited March 7 by JBkansas

[jpc]

Is it extinctions, or is it sedimentary deposits that feature human-created debris

[FranzBernhard]

Maybe like the C/Pg boundary: A not very conspicuous, thin layer as boundary bed (with plastic debris etc.), accompanied by mass extinction?

Franz Bernhard

[Missourian]

Maybe we are the Silurians...

 

The stratigraphic horizon would be quite dramatic in places. Think of Pompeii & Herculaneum, but with modern structures and materials. These would be preserved in depositional environments mostly, if not only (e.g. New Orleans).

[FranzBernhard]

On 3/8/2024 at 1:30 AM, Missourian said:

The stratigraphic horizon would be quite dramatic in places.

Like some spots the C/Pg-boundary. Thanis site, for example (anything new about Thanis?).

Yes, there would be probably more "fossil rich spots" in the Anthropocene as at the C/Pg.

Franz Bernhard