[Rockhounds] Crawford Lake chosen as the primary marker to identify the start of the Anthropocene epoch

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

An international team of researchers has chosen the location which best
represents the beginnings of what could be a new geological epoch, the
Anthropocene.

The Anthropocene Working Group
<https://www.anthropocene-curriculum.org/project/evidence-experiment> have
put forward Crawford Lake, in Canada, as a Global Boundary Stratotype
Section and Point (GSSP) for the Anthropocene. A GSSP is an internationally
agreed-upon reference point to show the start of a new geological period or
epoch in layers of rock that have built up through the ages.

It’s been proposed by some geologists that we are now living in the
Anthropocene – a new geological epoch in which human activity has become
the dominant influence on the world’s climate and environment.

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2023/07/crawford-lake-anthropocene.page