However, not everyone agrees the Anthropocene is a geological reality — or that researchers have enough evidence to formally declare it a new epoch. The geologic time scale provides the official ...

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, ...

For the last seven decades, Earth has been operating in unprecedented ways, leading many researchers to argue that we have entered a new geological epoch known as the Anthropocene. "While it may ...

According to the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), the professional organization in charge of defining Earth’s time scale, we are officially in the Holocene (“entirely recent ...

Ever since atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen (Nobel Prize winner in 1995) popularized the notion of the Anthropocene at the turn of the millennium, the use of the word has spread throughout society.