A plastiglomerate from Kamilo Beach in Hawaii is displayed at Museon in The Hague, Netherlands. Plastiglomerates are just one of several examples of the collision between geological processes and industrialization. Credit: Aaikevanoord/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
The Difficulty of Defining the Anthropocene
By Alka Tripathy-Lang
March 29, 2021
At the bottom of Crawford Lake in Ontario, Canada, pristine layers of fine sediment accumulate year after year. Because the lake is small and tranquil, bottom currents do not jostle the sediment, nor does lacustrine life chew through the laminations. Each layer, called a varve, represents an annual record of any hubbub (or lack thereof) affecting the lake waters, going back almost 1,000 years.
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