Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit (eBook, PDF)

A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate
Redaktion: Zalasiewicz, Jan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Anthropocene, a term launched into public debate by Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen, has been used informally to describe the time period during which human actions have had a drastic effect on the Earth and its ecosystems. This book presents evidence for defining the Anthropocene as a geological epoch, written by the high-profile international team analysing its potential addition to the geological time scale. The evidence ranges from chemical signals arising from pollution, to landscape changes associated with urbanisation, and biological changes associated with species invasion and extinctions. Global environmental change is placed within the context of planetary processes and deep geological time, allowing the reader to appreciate the scale of human-driven change and compare the global transition taking place today with major transitions in Earth history. This is an authoritative review of the Anthropocene for graduate students and academic researchers across scientific, social science and humanities disciplines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108619943
• Artikelnr.: 55438863

Inhaltsangabe

1. History and development of the Anthropocene as a stratigraphical concept Jan Zalasiewicz
Colin Waters
Mark Williams
Colin Summerhayes
Martin Head
Reinhold Leinfelder
Jacques Grinevald
John McNeill
Naomi Oreskes
Will Steffen
Scott Wing
Phil Gibbard
Davor Vidas
Trevor Hancock and Anthony Barnosky; 2. Stratigraphic signatures of the Anthropocene Bob Hazen
Jan Zalasiewicz
Colin Waters
Andy Smith
Neil Rose
Agnieszka Gäuszka
An Zhisheng
Simon Price
Daniel deB. Richter
Sharon A Billings
James Syvitski and Colin Summerhayes; 3. The biostratigraphical signature of the Anthropocene Mark Williams
Anthony Barnosky
Jan Zalasiewicz
Martin Head
Ian Wilkinson
David Aldridge
Colin Waters
Valentin Bault and Reinhold Leinfelder; 4. The tectonosphere and its physical stratigraphical record Peter Haff
Jan Zalasiewicz
Colin Waters
Mark Williams
Anthony Barnosky
Reinhold Leinfelder and Juliana Ivar do Sul; 5. Anthropocene chemostratigraphy Ian Fairchild
Jan Zalasiewicz
Colin Summerhayes
Colin Waters
Reinhold Leinfelder
Agnieszka Gäuszka
Michael Wagreich
Neil Rose
Irka Hajdas and Catherine Jeandel; 6. Climate change and the Anthropocene Colin Summerhayes and Alejandro Cearreta; 7. The stratigraphical boundary of the Anthropocene Jan Zalasiewicz
Colin Waters
Mark Williams
Colin Summerhayes
Eric Odada
Michael Wagreich
Erich Draganits
Matt Edgeworth
J. R. McNeill
Will Steffen and Martin Head; References; Index.