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      Epochs, events and episodes: Marking the geological impact of humans 

      Waters, Colin N.; Williams, Mark; Zalasiewicz, Jan; Turner, Simon D.; Barnosky, Anthony D.; Head, Martin J.; Wing, Scott L.; Wagreich, Michael; Steffen, Will; Summerhayes, Colin P.; Cundy, Andrew B.; Zinke, Jens; Fialkiewicz-Koziel, Barbara; Leinfelder, Reinhold; Haff, Peter K.; McNeill, J. R.; Rose, Neil L.; Hajdas, Irka; McCarthy, Francine M. G.; Cearreta Bilbao, Alejandro; Galuszka, Agnieszka; Syvitski, Jaia; Han, Yongming; An, Zhisheng; Fairchild, Ian J.; Ivar do Sul, Juliana A.; Jeandel, Catherine (Elsevier, 2022-11)
      Event stratigraphy is used to help characterise the Anthropocene as a chronostratigraphic concept, based on analogous deep-time events, for which we provide a novel categorization. Events in stratigraphy are distinct from ...
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      The Anthropocene: Comparing Its Meaning in Geology (Chronostratigraphy) with Conceptual Approaches Arising in Other Disciplines 

      Zalasiewicz, Jan; Waters, Colin N.; Ellis, Erle C.; Head, Martin J.; Vidas, Davor; Steffen, Will; Thomas, Julia Adeney; Horn, Eva; Summerhayes, Colin P.; Leinfelder, Reinhold; McNeill, J. R.; Galuszka, Agnieszka; Williams, Mark; Barnosky, Anthony D.; Richter, Daniel de B.; Gibbard, Philip L.; Syvitski, Jaia; Jeandel, Catherine; Cearreta Bilbao, Alejandro; Cundy, Andrew B.; Fairchild, Ian J.; Rose, Neil L.; Ivar do Sul, Juliana A.; Shotyk, William; Turner, Simon; Wagreich, Michael; Zinke, Jens (American Geophysical Union, 2021-03)
      The term Anthropocene initially emerged from the Earth System science community in the early 2000s, denoting a concept that the Holocene Epoch has terminated as a consequence of human activities. First associated with the ...