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University of Southampton: Crawford Lake Chosen as the Primary Marker to Identify the Start of the Anthropocene Epoch
July 13, 2023
SOUTHAMPTON, England, July 13 (TNSres) -- The University of Southampton issued the following news on July 12, 2023:

An international team of researchers has chosen the location which best represents the beginnings of what could be a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.

The Anthropocene Working Group have put forward Crawford Lake, in Canada, as a Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Anthropocene. A GSSP is an internationally agreed-upon referen . . .

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