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Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch
- Source :
- Communications Earth & Environment, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Nature Portfolio, 2020.
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Abstract
- Human energy consumption and productivity have steeply risen around 1950 CE, leading to a departure from the Earth’s Holocene state into the Anthropocene, suggests a quantitative analysis of humanity’s influence on the Earth system.
- Subjects :
- Geology
QE1-996.5
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 26624435
- Volume :
- 1
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Communications Earth & Environment
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.94cb83e48d2949b0b6e808b1181ec7a4
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00029-y