Anthropocene
Retour à SubatlanticReprésentation et statut
- Couleur CMYK
- (0%,0%,0%,100%)
- Rang
- Époque chronostratigraphique
- Usage
- Ce terme n'est pas en usage.
- Status
- terme informel
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Anthropozän
- Français
- Anthropocène
- Italiano
- Antropocene
- English
- Anthropocene
- Origine du nom
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anthropos = mankind , kaïno = recent
- Variantes historiques
- anthropozoic era (Stoppani 1873), noosphere (Vernadsky 1926, Teilhard de Chardin ----), Anthropocene (Crutzen 2002, Andersson et al. 2005, Crossland 2005, Zalasiewicz et al. 2010 and 2011a/b)
Âge
- Âge au sommet
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- Holocène
- Âge à la base
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- Holocène
- Méthode de datation
- depuis la fin du XVIIIème siècle (révolution industrielle)
Références
- Définition
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2002) :
Geology of mankind. Nature 415, 23
p.23: For the past three centuries, the effects of humans on the global environment have escalated. Because of these anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide, global climate may depart significantly from natural behaviour for many millennia to come. It seems appropriate to assign the term ‘Anthropocene’ to the present, in many ways human-dominated, geological epoch, supplementing the Holocene — the warm period of the past 10–12 millennia. The Anthropocene could be said to have started in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when analyses of air trapped in polar ice showed the beginning of growing global concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane. This date also happens to coincide with James Watt’s design of the steam engine in 1784.
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- Révision
- 2001) : Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 369, 1036–1055 (
- Principales publications
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2011) : The Anthropocene: a new epoch of geological time. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 369, 835–841(2008) : Are we now living in the Anthropocene. GSA Today 18, 4–8(2010) : The new world of the Anthropocene. Environmental Science and Technology 44, 2228–2231(