Join UTD undergraduate Nathan Brown as he explores the Anthropocene, its definition, its potential, and the processes shaping it.
[UTD GSS Student Educational Series]

Credit: Nathan Brown
UTD GSS student work

Please consider donating to the UT Dallas Geoscience Studio and the Geonews program:
https://giving.utdallas.edu/gss

The references:
Ehlers E. and Krafft T., (2006). Earth system science in the Anthropocene. Springer. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/b137853.pdf
Gibbard, PL and Walker MJC, (2013). The term "Anthropocene" in the context of formal geological classification. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 395, 29-37. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP395.1
Lewis SL and Maslin, MA, (2015). Defining the Anthropocene. Nature, 519, 171-180. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14258
Steffen W., Crutzen PJ and McNeill JR (2007). The Anthropocene: are humans now overwhelming the great forces of nature? Ambio,36(8), 614-621. https://www-jstor-org.libproxy.utdallas.edu/stable/25547826?seq8
Waters, CN, Zalasiewicz, JA, Summerhayes C., Fairchild IJ, Rose, NL, Loader NJ, Shotyk W., Cearretag, AD, Head, MJ, Syvitskii, JPM, Williams, M., Wagreichj, M., Barnoskyk, AD, Zhisheng, A., Leinfelder, R., Jeandel, C., Gałuszka, A., Ivar do Sul, JA, Gradstein F., Steffen, W., McNeill, JR, Wing, S., Poirier, C. and Edgeworth, M. (2018). Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSP) for the Anthropocene Series: Where and How to Look for a Potential Candidate. Earth Sciences Reviews, 178, 379-429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.12.016
Waters, CN, Summerhayes, CP, Zalasiewicz, JA, Mark Williams., The Anthropocene as a unit of geologic time: a guide to scientific evidence and current debate. (2019). Cambridge University Press. https://books.google.com/books?hlen&lr&idU7-GDwAAQBAJ&oifnd&pgPA2&dqanthropocene&otsZ5ehfwWq67&sigbSNSeHSvbTSBpV90e1qohwCY-Ek#vonepage&qanthropocene&ftrue
Zalasiewicz, JA, Williams, M., Steffen W., and Crutzen P. (2010). The new world of the Anthropocene, Environ. Sci. Technol., 44(7) 2228-2231. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es903118j
ICS Anthropocene Working Group, AWG Binding Vote Results, May 21, 2019, Subcommittee on Quaternary Stratigraphy: Anthropocene Working Group, http://quaternary.stratigraphy.org/working- groups/anthropocene/ [Accessed April 10, 2022]
INTERNATIONAL CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC MAP v2022 https://stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2022-02.pdf

Sci-Comm articles:
Geology timekeepers argue https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/anthropocene-holocene-geology-drama/565628/
The Anthropocene Debate: Marking Humanity's Impact https://e360.yale.edu/features/the_anthropocene_debate__marking_humanitys_impact
Humans versus Earth: the quest to define the Anthropocene https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02381-2

Media sources:
Anthropocene: the era of human impact on Earth Sustainability https://youtu.be/q0VRB-PltrE
The era of humanity: ANTHROPOCENE https://youtu.be/mfDm7rM9_-8
KPg-Boundary image via – Earth Science Photo of the Day, photographer: James Van Gundy (2013) https://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/10/cretaceous-paleogen-boundary.html
Ediacaran GSSP image via James St. John, Flicker (2006) https://www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/50846412053
Olympic swimming pool image via – Average and Unfair Advantages: Circular Current in the Rio 2016 Olympic Swimming Pool, Myrtha Pools https://medium.com/kenyon-college-sports-analytics/unfair-advantages-circular-current-in- the-2016 -rio-olympic-pool-9b1f56ebdbc6
Music: Royalty Free Music from BenSoundhttps://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/the-lounge

#GSS #UTDGSS #UTD #Geology #Geosciences #Anthropocene #Humans #Climate Science #Environmental Science #Earth System #Stratigraphy #Chronostratigraphy #DeepTime #GeologicTime #ScienceCommunication

Please take the opportunity to connect and share this video with your friends and family if you find it useful.