It is merely intended to point out that the result of such methods as outlined above can only be to give us a rough idea of the order in which the several geologic epochs succeeded one another ...

We will provide a list of web sites with relevant information. The geologic time scale is divided into eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages. Our activities, and the time scale for download above, ...

IT will I daresay be within the recollection of many of those who are now present that I was honoured by the invitation to deliver the opening lecture in this hall last year. In response to that ...

It was coined in the 1980s, then popularised in 2000 by atmospheric chemist Paul J Crutzen and diatom researcher Eugene F Stoermer. The duo suggested that we are living in a new geological epoch. The ...

The group agreed to look at it as a formal problem in geology. Would the Anthropocene satisfy the criteria used for naming a new epoch? In geologic parlance, epochs are relatively short time spans ...

But most members of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy felt this “Age of Humans” should not be rigidly defined as an epoch — a stretch of geologic time that typically spans ...

provides unmistakable evidence that Earth entered a new human-driven geological chapter - the Anthropocene epoch - some seven decades ago, a team of scientists said on Tuesday. The members of the ...

A long-standing effort to formally place the Anthropocene on the geologic timescale came to a surprising end this year. In March, a panel of academics rejected the proposal to define a new epoch ...