Crawford Lake chosen as the primary marker to identify the start of the Anthropocene epoch
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Crawford Lake chosen as the primary marker to identify the start of the Anthropocene epoch
Anthropocene proposes human activity has become a dominant influence on the planet, especially since the mid-twentieth century
Nuclear bomb tests have left a ‘stark plutonium fingerprint’ of this change in human activity
Evidence from Crawford Lake in Canada and 12 secondary locations will be assessed by International Commission on Stratigraphy to decide if we have entered a new geological era
Today [11 July 2023] an international team of researchers has chosen the location ...












