Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch

Jaia Syvitski (1) , Colin Waters (2) , John Day (3) , John Milliman (4) , Colin Summerhayes (5) , Will Steffen (6) , Jan Zalasiewicz (2) , Alejandro Cearreta (7) , Agnieszka Gałuszka (8) , Irka Hajdas (9) , Martin Head (10) , Reinhold Leinfelder (11) , J. Mcneill (12) , Clément Poirier (13) , Neil Rose (14) , William Shotyk (15) , Michael Wagreich (16) , Mark Williams (2)

1 INSTAAR - Institute of Arctic Alpine Research [University of Colorado Boulder]
2 University of Leicester
3 LSU - Louisiana State University
4 WM - College of William and Mary [Williamsburg]
5 CAM - University of Cambridge [UK]
6 ANU - Australian National University
7 UPV/EHU - Universidad del Pais Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea [Espagne]
8 Jan Kochanowski University
9 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]
10 Brock University [Canada]
11 Freie Universität Berlin
12 GU - Georgetown University [Washington]
13 M2C - Morphodynamique Continentale et Côtière
14 UCL - University College of London [London]
15 University of Alberta
16 University of Vienna [Vienna]

Domaines: Sciences de l'environnement; Milieux et Changements globaux; Environnement et Société; Planète et Univers [physics]; Sciences de la Terre

Jaia Syvitski, Colin Waters, John Day, John Milliman, Colin Summerhayes, et al.. Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch. Communications Earth & Environment, 2020, 1 (1), ⟨10.1038/s43247-020-00029-y⟩. ⟨hal-02971720⟩