Antropocen : nowa epoka geologiczna?

• Autorzy: Birkenmajer K.

Warianty tytułu

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Anthropocene : a new geological epoch?

• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

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The Anthropocene is a new epoch proposed by Crutzen and Stoermer (2000), with a base at 1950 AD or 1800 AD. The present author doubts its value while studying Quaternary stratigraphic columns, as its base signal (Holocene/Anthropocene) might be unrecognizable in field sections. The usage of the Anthropocene epoch would probably be restricted to areas of massive direct negative human impact on Nature, predominantly in the Northern Hemisphere. In much less affected Southern Hemisphere deserts (Australia), mountain chains (the Andes), the near-pristine glaciated Antarctic continent and Subantarctic islands, separation of the Anthropocene time-unit (as a formal epoch) from the Holocene epoch would be artificial, even useless. On the other hand, the informal term might be useful for economic geographers, planners, sociologists, and Nature- protectionists.

Słowa kluczowe

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czwartorzęd; holocen; antropocen; człowiek jako czynnik geologiczny

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Quaternary; Holocene; Anthropocene; man as a geological agent

• Wydawca: Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy
• Czasopismo: Przegląd Geologiczny
• Rocznik: 2012
• Tom: Vol. 60, nr 11
• Strony: 587–--588
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 7 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Birkenmajer K.

• Instytut Nauk Geologicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Ośrodek Badawczy w Krakowie, ul. Senacka 1, 31-002 Kraków

Bibliografia

• 1. ANONYM 2012a - Eugene Stoermer (1934-2012). [In:] Anthropocene -the geology of humanity. Global Change (Int. Geosph.-Biosph. Progr.), 78: 10.
• 2. ANONYM 2012b - Anthropocene website to be launched this year. [In:] Anthropocene - the geology of humanity. Global Change (Int. Geosph.-Biosph. Progr.), 78: 10.
• 3. CRUTZEN P. J. & STOERMER E. 2000 - The “Anthropocene’. Global Change Newsletter , 41: 17-18.
• 4. GIBBARD P.L., HEAD M.J., WALKER J.C. & The Subcommision on Quaternary Stratigraphy 2009 - Formal ratification of the Quaternary System/Period and the Pleistocene Series/Epoch with a base at 2.58 Ma. Jour. Quatern. Sc., 25: 96-102.
• 5. GRADSTEIN F., OGG J.G., SMITH A.G., BLEEKER W. & LOURENS L.J. 2004 - Anew geological time scale with special reference to the Precambrian and Neogene. Episodes, 27: 83-100.
• 6. The Subcommision on Quaternary Stratigraphy, 2012 - Working Group on the "Anthropocene"; http://www.quaternary.stratigraphy. org.uk/workinggroups/anthropocene/. Leicester: 4 pp.
• 7. SYVITSKI J.P.M. 2012 - Anthropocene: An epoch of our making. [In:] Anthropocene - the geology of humanity. Global Change (Int. Geosph.-Biosph. Progr.), 78: 12-15.