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Colonization of the Americas, ‘Little Ice Age’ climate, and bomb-produced carbon: Their role in defining the Anthropocene

Published:2015-05-29 Issue:2 Volume:2 Page:117-127
ISSN:2053-0196
Container-title:The Anthropocene Review
language:en
Short-container-title:The Anthropocene Review

Author:

,Zalasiewicz Jan¹,Waters Colin N²,Barnosky Anthony D³,Cearreta Alejandro⁴,Edgeworth Matt¹,Ellis Erle C⁵,Gałuszka Agnieszka⁶,Gibbard Philip L⁷,Grinevald Jacques⁸,Hajdas Irka⁹,Ivar do Sul Juliana¹⁰,Jeandel Catherine¹¹,Leinfelder Reinhold¹²,McNeill JR¹³,Poirier Clément¹⁴,Revkin Andrew¹⁵,deB Richter Daniel¹⁶,Steffen Will¹⁷,Summerhayes Colin¹⁸,Syvitski James PM¹⁹,Vidas Davor²⁰,Wagreich Michael²¹,Williams Mark¹,Wolfe Alexander P²²

Affiliation:

1. University of Leicester, UK

2. British Geological Survey, UK

3. University of California, USA

4. Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Spain

5. University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

6. Jan Kochanowski University, Poland

7. University of Cambridge, UK

8. IHEID, Switzerland

9. ETH Zurich, Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics, Switzerland

10. Association of Polar Early Career Scientists, Brazil

11. LEGOS (Université Paul Sabatier, CNRS/CNES/IRD), Toulouse, France

12. Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

13. Georgetown University, USA

14. Université de Caen Basse Normandie, CNRS, France

15. Pace Academy for Advanced Environmental Studies, USA

16. Duke University, USA

17. The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

18. Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University, UK

19. University of Colorado-Boulder Campus, USA

20. The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway

21. University of Vienna, Austria

22. University of Alberta, Canada

Abstract

A recently published analysis by Lewis and Maslin (Lewis SL and Maslin MA (2015) Defining the Anthropocene. Nature 519: 171–180) has identified two new potential horizons for the Holocene−Anthropocene boundary: 1610 (associated with European colonization of the Americas), or 1964 (the peak of the excess radiocarbon signal arising from atom bomb tests). We discuss both of these novel suggestions, and consider that there is insufficient stratigraphic basis for the former, whereas placing the latter at the peak of the signal rather than at its inception does not follow normal stratigraphical practice. Wherever the boundary is eventually placed, it should be optimized to reflect stratigraphical evidence with the least possible ambiguity.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Geology,Ecology,Global and Planetary Change

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2053019615587056

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