dc.contributor.author
Waters, Colin N.
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Head, Martin J.
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Zalasiewicz, Jan
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McCarthy, Francine M. G.
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Wing, Scott L.
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Haff, Peter K.
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Williams, Mark
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Barnosky, Anthony D.
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Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, Barbara
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Leinfelder, Reinhold
dc.date.accessioned
2023-07-17T14:32:01Z
dc.date.available
2023-07-17T14:32:01Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/40127
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-39849
dc.description.abstract
Merritts et al. (2023) misrepresent Paul Crutzen’s Anthropocene concept as encompassing all significant anthropogenic impacts, extending back many millennia. Crutzen's definition reflects massively enhanced, much more recent human impacts that transformed the Earth System away from the stability of Holocene conditions. His concept of an epoch (hence the ‘cene’ suffix) is more consistent with the strikingly distinct sedimentary record accumulated since the mid-20th century. Waters et al. (2022) highlighted a Great Acceleration Event Array (GAEA) of stratigraphic event markers that are indeed diverse and complex but also tightly clustered around 1950 CE, allowing ultra-high resolution characterization and correlation of a clearly recognisable Anthropocene chronostratigraphic base. The ‘Anthropocene event’ offered by Merritts et al., following Gibbard et al. (2021, 2022), is a highly nuanced concept that obfuscates the transformative human impact of the chronostratigraphic Anthropocene. Waters et al. (2022) restricted the meaning of the term ‘event’ in geology to conform with usual Quaternary practice and improve its utility. They simultaneously recognized an evidence-based Anthropogenic Modification Episode that is more explicitly defined than the highly interpretive interdisciplinary ‘Anthropocene event’ of Gibbard et al. (2021, 2022). The advance of science is best served through clearly developed concepts supported by tightly circumscribed terminology; indeed, improvements to stratigraphy over recent decades have been achieved through increasingly precise definitions, especially for chronostratigraphic units, and not by retaining vague terminology.
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4 Seiten
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Anthropocene
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Anthropogenic Modification Episode
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Chronostratigraphy
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Event stratigraphy
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Great Acceleration Event Array
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dc.subject.ddc
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften
dc.title
Response to Merritts et al. (2023): The Anthropocene is complex. Defining it is not
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber
104335
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104335
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Earth-Science Reviews
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
238
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104335
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Geowissenschaften
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Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften / Fachrichtung Paläontologie
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no
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open access
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1872-6828
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