They are still debating the proof for the Anthropocene and are looking for what's known as a 'golden spike' - a marker in the fossil record which could demarcate the Holocene from the Anthropocene.

As such, it could be the "golden spike" scientists are seeking to define the start of the Anthropocene Epoch - a new time segment in our geological history of Earth. The suggestion is that ...

A manifesto to save Planet Earth (and ourselves) 'Loneliest tree' records human epoch Search for Anthropocene 'golden spike' Geologists divide up the 4.6-billion-year existence of Earth into ...

Moreover, while the AWC pegged the mid-20th century as the official start of the Anthropocene — a "golden spike" moment in geological terminology, named for the physical tine used to indicate ...

Can you explain what the Anthropocene is and how you got the ... Then, in 1945 there was this "golden spike," where suddenly all the Earth systems go haywire. There had been build-up points ...