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

[Stephen Shimatzki]

Isn't this a little arbitrary and advanced?   I mean dinosaurs didn't get
to pick the jurassic and trilobites didn't get to pick the devonian.   I
think what ever comes along after us should pick the start of the
anthropogenic epoch.    It will be much easier to study the soil layers
after our extinction in 100 years...  😉


On Sun, Jul 16, 2023, 4:05 PM Kreigh Tomaszewski <kreigh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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