Geology watchers were more than a little surprised last month to learn that we are living in a new age called the Meghalayan, which apparently began about 4200 years ago. After all the excitement over the Anthropocene, it seems that a rival group of geological stratigraphers — one tasked with naming the sub-parts of the Holocene — has […]
Posts Tagged ‘Anthropocene Working Group’
Welcome to the… Meghalayan?
Posted in AnthropoScene, tagged Anthropocene, Anthropocene Working Group, controversies, geology, geosemiosis, Holocene, Meghalayan Age, semiotic Earth, stratigraphy on August 12, 2018 | 28 Comments »
Anthropocenic reckoning
Posted in AnthropoScene, GeoPhilosophy, tagged Anthropocene, Anthropocene Working Group, Clive Hamilton, Revkin on January 17, 2015 | 2 Comments »
With environmental and eco-political news in the front pages daily, it’s easy to get back into the swing of regular, even daily, posting after the winter holiday lull. Here’s more on the “dating the ecocrisis” theme… Andy Revkin is reporting that the Anthropocene Working Group has concluded that the middle of the twentieth century makes […]
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