Scientists are to pick a location that sums up the current Anthropocene epoch when Homo sapiens made its mark
In a few weeks, geologists will select a site that demonstrates most vividly how humans have changed the structure of our planet’s surface. They will choose a place they believe best illustrates when a new epoch – which they have dubbed the Anthropocene – was born and its predecessor, the Holocene, came to an end.
Votes from members are now being counted and a shortlist will be created for final consideration later this year, starting a process that will require three other senior bodies to support the proposal. The winner will then be marked with a brass plaque, which is used to define sites that reveal changes in strata that signify the onset of a new epoch. One such plaque, on a mountainside in Monte San Nicola, Apulia, Italy, celebrates the beginning 2.
These goods were then dumped when they ceased to be of use. Although some recycling has taken place, metallic aluminium – at one time so rare – has been spread across the planet. “On its own, that would be a sure sign to aliens landing in the distant future that something special was happening to the Earth at this time,” he added.
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