Scientists Vote to Recognise Anthropocene as Earth’s New Epoch
On May 21, 2019, 29 of the 34-member Anthropocene Working Group (AWG), voted in favour of starting the new epoch. The result builds on an informal vote taken at the 2016 International Geological Congress in Cape Town, and lays the groundwork for a formal proposal by 2021 to the International Commission on Stratigraphy.
Anthropocene Epoch
- The move signals the end of the Holocene epoch, which began 12,000 to 11,600 years ago.The International Union of Geological Sciences needs to ratify the AWG formal proposal, before the new epoch can formally be recognised.
- The term was coined by Nobel Laureate Paul Crutzen, and ....
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