Anthropocene Annotated

  1. Aalto, Rolf, Brown, Antony, Bullard, Joanna and Chiverrell, Richard, et al. “The Anthropocene: Is There a Geomorphological Case?” Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Volume 38, Issue 4. March 30, 2013. Pages 431-434: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.3368/epdf
    • University of Exeter College of Life and Environmental Sciences Associate Professor of Physical Geography Rolf Aalto [Ph.D., Geological Sciences, University of Washington], University of Southampton Professor of Physical Geography Antony Brown, Loughborough University Professor of Physical Geography Johanna Bullard [Ph.D., Sheffield University] and University of Liverpool School of Environmental Sciences Professor of Physical Geography Richard Chiverrell [Ph.D., University of Leeds]
  2. Aalto, Rolf, Brown, Antony, Bullard, Joanna and Chiverrel, Richard, et al. “The Geomorphology of the Anthropocene: Emergence, Status and Implications”. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Volume 42 Issue 1. January 2017. Pages 71-90: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.3943/epdf
    • University of Exeter Professor of Physical Geography Rolf Aalto, University of Southampton Professor of Physical Geography Antony Brown, Loughborough University Professor of Physical Geography Johanna Bullard and University of Liverpool Professor of Physical Geography Richard conclude that fluvial and coastal geomorphologists, “Especially those working in densely populated regions” tend to see evidence of human dominance is more widespread throughout the landscape in fluvial and coastal records than in Aeolian and cryospheric records, though Aeolian geomorphologists, “commonly working in drylands”, recognize that Aeolian landscapes are increasingly impinged upon by human activities.
    • They therefore conclude that geomorphologically the putative Anthropocene should inevitably have “an informal stratigraphic status accommodating” a highly Diachronous lower boundary.
  1. Acma, B., Anupama, K., Bub, S., Chambers, F., Chen, X., Cooper, J. and Crook, D., et al. “Social-Ecological Systems in the Anthropocene: The Need for Integrating Social and Biophysical Records at Regional Scales”. The Anthropocene Review, Volume 2, Issue 3. 2015: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2053019615579128
  2. Angus, Ian. “Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System”. New York University. July 1, 2016. 280 Pages: https://books.google.com/books?id=gf3SCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT193&lpg=PT193&dq=Anthropocene:+Earth+System,+Geological,+Philosophical+and+Political+Paradigm+Shifts&source=bl&ots=amZS1JD9RY&sig=w886ANrk2b14BY-sBYZSzIUgmzo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqm9-TzOvSAhVBw4MKHeo6CjAQ6AEIPjAG#v=onepage&q=Anthropocene%3A%20Earth%20System%2C%20Geological%2C%20Philosophical%20and%20Political%20Paradigm%20Shifts&f=false
  3. Autin, Whitney and Holbrook, John. “Is the Anthropocene an Issue of Stratigraphy or Pop Culture?” Geological Society of America Today, Volume 22, Issue 7. July 2012. Pages 60-61: http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/22/7/pdf/i1052-5173-22-7-60.pdf
  4. Barnosky, Anthony. “Paleontological Evidence for Defining the Anthropocene”. Geological Society of London. Volume 395. October 24, 2013: http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/395/1/149.full.pdf+html
  5. Barnosky, Anthony and Cearreta, Alejandro. “The Anthropocene is Functionally and Stratigraphically Distinct from the Holocene”. Science, Volume 351, Issue 6269: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6269/aad2622/tab-pdf
  6. Barnosky, Anthony, Bennett, Carys, and Cearreta, Alejandro, et al. “The Anthropocene: A Conspicuous Stratigraphical Signal of Anthropogenic Changes in Production and Consumption Across the Biosphere”. Earth’s Future, Volume 4, Issue 3. March 2016. Pages 34-53
    • University of California—Berkeley Professor of Integrative Biology Anthony Barnosky [Ph.D., Geological Sciences, University of Washington], Carys Bennet of the University of Leicester Department of Geology and Alejandro Cearreta of the University of the Basque Country Department of Stratigraphy and Paleontology [Ph.D., Geology, University of Exeter] trace the increase in complexity of biospheric relationships between production using chemicals and energy to convert inorganic matter to biomass and consumption extracting energy from living or dead biomass underpinning ecosystem services throughout the past four billion years from its origins in the Precambrian through anaerobic microbial production and consumption and the advent of photosynthesis and production from oxygenic autotrophs to the evolution of eukaryotes, metazoans, microbes, and tissues for specific functions in animals and decomposers, fungi and plants that led in the last half a billion years to complex trophic structures with no single species dominating marine food webs or the terrestrial biosphere in which plants comprise the largest biomass of the land as primary producers.
    • They argue that refashioning and reorganization at every level from the global to microscopic genomic alteration of the biosphere and such relationships within it between production and consumption of biomass, natural resources, produced goods and use of fossil fuels to augment production by Homo Sapiens leaves distinct physical stratigraphy signals that can be traced from the geochemical signals of Paleolithic stone tool culture and technology through the energy production making possible manufacturing and consumption of goods reflected by Diachronous signals of technofossils, human bioturbation and migration to significant Stratigraphically isochronous signals in the mid-twentieth century.
    • They argue that the state of the biosphere and human influence on it is characterized by geologically unprecedented patterns; pervasively influenced and mediated by humans, of energy flow necessary for maintaining complex modern societies, growing with increasing population and rapidly rising per capita energy consumption and resource use.
    • They write that humans appropriate a quarter to a third of the net flux of carbon liberating energy from carbon from the atmosphere into fossil plants, making possible increased anthropogenic production of iron, nitrogen, nutrients, phosphorus and potassium.
    • They conclude that the geological record of mid-twentieth century records not merely the present and influence on environments of humans, but the initiation of significant influence on key geochemical cycles and climate systems.
  1. Barnosky, Anthony, Cearreta, Alejandro and Crutzen, Paul, et al. “Stratigraphic and Earth System Approaches to Defining the Anthropocene”. Earth’s Future, Volume 4, Issue 8. August 2016. Pages 324-345
    • University of California—Berkeley Professor of Integrative Biology Anthony Barnosky [Ph.D., Geological Sciences, University of Washington], Alejandro Cearreta of the University of the Basque Country Department of Stratigraphy and Paleontology [Ph.D., Geology, University of Exeter] and Nobel-Prize-winning Stockholm University Department of Meteorology Professor Paul Crutzen [Ph.D., Meteorology, University of Stockholm] state that recognition of the Anthropocene as following the Holocene must be grounded in the Geologic Time Scale, but argue that from a stratigraphic perspective human activity has pushed the Earth system out of the pre-industrial Holocene norm and has undergone a substantial transition away from its Holocene state.
    • They further argue that; while a decisive and rapid shift of contemporary societies toward sustainable development over the next few decades could stabilize the Earth system in an Anthropocene with little further biospheric change but remaining a distinctly different epoch from the Holocene, with more intense interglacial conditions than in the late Quaternary climate regime of glacial-interglacial cycles; the present Anthropocene trajectory of societies of growing human pressures will lead to an Anthropocene that is a markedly biologically different state of the Earth System from that which supported the development of civilization, not governed by the late Quaternary regime, in much warmer Greenhouse state novel for Homo Sapiens with significant loss of polar ice and biotic impoverishment.
  2. Barry, Tiffany, Bown, Paul, Brenchley, Patrick, Cantrill, David and Coe, Angela. “Are We Now Living in the Anthropocene?” Geological Society of America Today, Volume 18. Febriary 2008: http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/18/2/pdf/i1052-5173-18-2-4.pdf
  3. Barry, Tiffany, Bown, Paul and Coe, Angela. “Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene”. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Volume 369, Issue 1938. March 13, 2011. Page 1036-1055: http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roypta/369/1938/1036.full.pdf
    • Tiffany Barry of the University of Liverpool [Ph.D., Geology, University of Leicester], University of London Department of Earth Sciences Professor Micropaleontology Paul Bown [Ph.D., University College London] and Angela Coe of Open University [Ph.D., Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Oxford University] argue that lithosthratigraphic signals for the Anthropocene include urban constructions, man-made deposits and sediment flux changes and are producing a significant “event layer”, the chemostratigraphic signals are dominated by new organic compounds and man-made radionuclides and marine relam acidification as an effect of CO2 release and the bistratigraphic signals include globally transferred species and geologically novel aspect.
  1. Berardelli, Phil. “Human-Driven Planet: Time To Make It Official?” Science. January 24, 2008: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2008/01/human-driven-planet-time-make-it-official
  2. Birks, Hilary and Briner, Jason, et al. “Stratigraphic Expressions of the Holocene-Anthropocene Transition Revealed in Sediments from Remote Lakes”. Earth Science Reviews. 2013: http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/45002563/Stratigraphic_expressions_of_the_Holocen20160422-6147-1udeh52.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1490239329&Signature=ySKAgocN22%2BHDgXRKSmHUCbxPsw%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DStratigraphic_expressions_of_the_Holocen.pdf
  3. Bohle, Martin. “Recording the Onset of the Anthropocene”. Engineering Geology for society and Territory, Volume 7. August 13, 2014. Pages 161-163: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-09303-1_31
  4. Bonneuil, Christophe, et al. “The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking Modernity in a New Epoch”. Routledge. May 15, 2015. 200 Pages: https://books.google.com/books?id=RathCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=Stratigraphic+and+Earth+System+Approaches+to+Defining+the+Anthropocene&source=bl&ots=J78ubGpy_V&sig=CIYJqOEHGCcvPCbdnWBTeVGvSJE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwio2c34hevSAhVm2IMKHVbSBEEQ6AEIRzAH#v=onepage&q=Stratigraphic%20and%20Earth%20System%20Approaches%20to%20Defining%20the%20Anthropocene&f=false
  5. Brown, A. and Coulthard, T. et al. “Human Impact on Fluvial Regimes and Sediment Flux During the Holocene”. Global and Planetary Change. 2010: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brahim_Damnati/publication/256507012_hoffmann2010_gpc/links/02e7e52332592024f2000000.pdf
  6. Brown, Antony. “The Anthropocene: A Geomorphological and Sedimentary View”. In Rocha R. Pais J, Kulliberg J., Finney S., Eds. Strati 2013, Springer Geology. Springer Nature. April 24, 2014: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-04364-7_171 https://books.google.com/books?id=6dMkBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA909&lpg=PA909&dq=The+Anthropocene:+A+Geomorphological+and+Sedimentary+View&source=bl&ots=i74wf23Mrs&sig=acjMMe0GLlz266l2ZspWYtpPRTw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjj8evoiOvSAhWM0YMKHWAzB_oQ6AEIMjAD#v=onepage&q=The%20Anthropocene%3A%20A%20Geomorphological%20and%20Sedimentary%20View&f=false
    • University of Southampton Professor of Physical Geography Antony Brown sets recognition of human dominance in sedimentary transport systems and the spatial diachrony of anthropogenic geomorphology as being “a priori considerations concerning” the possible formalization of the Anthropocene from a geomorphological perspective.
  7. Brown, Antony and Carey, Chris, et al. “Geomorphology of the Anthropocene: Time-Transgressive Discontinuities of Human-Induced Alluviation”. Anthropocene, Volume 1. September 2013. Pages 3-13
    • University of Southampton Professor of Physical Geography Antony Brown and Chris Carey of the University of Brighton [Ph.D., Swansea University] write that while there is seldom a direct relationship of accelerated Alluviation with anthropogenic activity at the regional level, geomorphologists have recognized the Holocene alluvial record of a high-order global fluvial discontinuity within Holocene alluvial stratigraphies that is evidence on all continents except Antarctica, dated to the mid to late Holocene in the old world and to the period of European colonization in the New World.
    • They argue that the principal cause of this is arable agriculture and that it will make a marked lithological and sedimentological difference between the Middle-Late Holocene terrace and earlier Pleistocene terraces which will also include a biological turnover with the appearance of new taxa, largely domesticated and synanthropes.
  8. Certini, Giacomo and Scalenghe, Riccardo. “Is the Anthropocene Really Worthy of a Formal Geologic Definition?” The Anthropocene Review, Volume 2, Issue 1. 2015
    • University of Florence Department of Environmental Sciences Associate Professor of Agri-Environment Giacomo Certinia and Riccardo Scalenghe [Ph.D., Soil Chemistry] of the University of Padua argue in favor of beginning to the Anthropocene age as a geologic time span on the geologic timescale 11,700 years ago, but Diachronous in different parts of the world.
  9. Certini, Giacomo and Scalenghe, Riccardo. “Anthropogenic Soil Are the Golden Spike for the Anthropocene”. The Holocene, Volume 21, Issue 8. 2011: http://asm2012.lternet.edu/sites/default/files/working-groups/wg-26/Certini_Scalenghe_2011_Soil_Denotes_Anthropocene.pdf
  10. Certini, Giacomo and Scalenghe, Riccardo. “Holocene as Anthropocene”. Science. Volume 349, Issue 6245. July 17, 2015. Page 246: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6245/246.1
  11. Chin, Anne, et al. “Geomorphology of the Anthropocene: Understanding the Surficial Legacy of Past and Present Human Activities”. Anthropocene, Volume 2. October 2013. Pages 1-3: http://all-geo.org/jefferson/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/13_Jefferson_et_al_preface_Anthropocene_2013.pdf
    • University of Colorado—Denver Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences Professor Anne Chin [Ph.D., Fluvial Geomorphology, Arizona State University]
  12. Corcoran, Patricia, et al. “An Anthropogenic Marker Horizon in the Future Rock Record”. Geological Society of America Today. Volume, Issue 6. Jun 2014. Pages 4-8: http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/24/6/pdf/i1052-5173-24-6-4.pdf
  13. Crossland, Christopher and Janet, et al. “Coastal Fluxes in the Anthropocene”. Springer Science and business Media. June 9, 2005. 232 Pages: https://issuu.com/futureearthcoasts/docs/01-chapter-01-low
    https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=v-Y72T6L0RoC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=The+Anthropocene+Biosphere&ots=c7DMEhakV-&sig=w8cYSA9I-gtAOmmM_SWqTI52Rng#v=onepage&q=The%20Anthropocene%20Biosphere&f=false
  14. Crutzen, Paul. “Geology of Mankind”. Nature, Volume 415, Issue 6867. January 2002. Page 23
    • Nobel-Prize-winning Stockholm University Department of Meteorology Professor Paul Crutzen [Ph.D., Meteorology, University of Stockholm] writes that concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane in polar ice place the start of the Anthropocene in the late eighteenth century.
  15. Crutzen, Paul. “Geology of Mankind”. In Brauch, Hans and Crutzen, Paul, eds. “A Pioneer on Atmospheric Chemistry and climate Change in Anthropocene”. Springer Briefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, Volume 50. April 16, 2016. Pages 211-215: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-27460-7_10
  16. Crutzen, Paul, et al. “The Anthropocene: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives”. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 369, Issue 1938.March 13, 2011. Pages 842-867: http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roypta/369/1938/842.full.pdf
  17. Crutzen, Paul, et al. “The New World of the Anthropocene: The Anthropocene, Following the Lost World of the Holocene, Holds Challenges for Both Science and Society”. Environmental Science and Technology, Volume 44, Issue 7. April 2010. Pages 2228-2231: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/ipdf/10.1021/es903118j
  18. Cunha, Daniel. “The Geology of the Ruling Class”. The Anthropocene Review. Volume 2. 2015: http://www.whoi.edu/fileserver.do?id=223144&pt=2&p=190031
    • Daniel Cunha of Brigham- Young University [M.Sc., Environmental Science] argues that the Anthropocene is characterized by a lack of class control, with the material resources of the Earth unevenly exploited consumed across classes.
  1. Davies, Jeremy. “The Birth of the Anthropocene”. University of California. May 24, 2016: https://books.google.com/books?id=PLfbCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA94#v=onepage&q&f=false
  2. Edgeworth, Matt, et al. “Diachronous Beginnings of the Anthropocene: The Lower Bounding Surface of Anthropogenic Deposits”. The Anthropocene Review. January 8, 2015: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2053019614565394
  3. Edwards, Lucy. “What is the Anthropocene? Geologists Must Consider Whether the Anthropocene Is a Specific Segment in the continuum of Time or a Holistic Concept”. American Geophysical Union. November 30, 2015: https://eos.org/opinions/what-is-the-anthropocene
  4. Edwards, Lucy and Finney, Stanley. “The Anthropocene Epoch: Scientific Decision or Political Statement?” Geological Society of America Today, Volume 26, Issue 3-4. March-April 2016. Pages 4-10: http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/26/3/pdf/i1052-5173-26-3-4.pdf
  5. Ehlers, Eckart and Krafft, Thomas. “Earth System Science in the Anthropocene: Emerging Issues and Problems”. Springer Science and Business Media. March 14, 2006. 268 Pages:
    https://books.google.com/books?id=ukmxWkoMSHgC&pg=PT6&lpg=PT6&dq=Earth+System+Science+in+the+Anthropocene:+Emerging+Issues+and+Problems&source=bl&ots=zKOnLvB5jr&sig=Z3OZUzDyxx6sY3A0aMyqoa7hwuQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiAg_rNouvSAhXI5IMKHa9OCawQ6AEINzAG#v=onepage&q=Earth%20System%20Science%20in%20the%20Anthropocene%3A%20Emerging%20Issues%20and%20Problems&f=false
  6. Ellis, Erle, et al. “Mapping the Topographical Fingerprints of Humanity Across Earth”. American Geophysical Union. March 16, 2017: https://eos.org/opinions/mapping-the-topographic-fingerprints-of-humanity-across-earth
  7. Ellis, Erle and Fuller, Dorian, et al. “Dating the Anthropocene: Towards an Empirical global history of Human Transformation of the Terrestrial Biosphere”. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. December 4, 2013: https://www.elementascience.org/articles/10.12952/journal.elementa.000018/
  8. Ellis, Erle and Fuller, Dorian, et al. “Defining the Epoch We Live In: Is a Formally Designated “Anthropocene” a Good Idea?” Science. Volume 348, Issue 6320. April 3, 2015. Page 38: http://ecotope.org/People/ellis/papers/ruddiman_2015.pdf
  9. Ellis, M. “A Stratigraphical Basis for the Anthropocene”. Geological Society of London. June 5, 2014. 321 Pages: https://books.google.com/books?id=Vt6kAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=Geomorphology+of+the+Anthropocene:+Time-Transgressive+Discontinuities+of+Human-Induced+Alluviation&source=bl&ots=qAHUdis0T1&sig=M48GCYT42vokDu_AysG8qhg52P4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhhNjqievSAhXI44MKHXDgB5oQ6AEIPTAF#v=onepage&q=Geomorphology%20of%20the%20Anthropocene%3A%20Time-Transgressive%20Discontinuities%20of%20Human-Induced%20Alluviation&f=false
    https://books.google.com/books?id=Vt6kAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=Anthropogenic+Soil+Are+the+Golden+Spike+for+the+Anthropocene&source=bl&ots=qAHUdit0T0&sig=-6FplFjVFTLtlANKrgV74J5dygo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiRl4_HjevSAhXk6oMKHdizBKsQ6AEIQjAI#v=onepage&q=Anthropogenic%20Soil%20Are%20the%20Golden%20Spike%20for%20the%20Anthropocene&f=false
  10. Ellis, Michael, et al. “The Anthropocene: A New Epoch of Geological Time?” Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society, Volume 369, Issue 1938. March 13, 2011
    • University of Memphis Professor Michael Ellis traces the evolution of the terminology from the coining of the term “Anthropozoic” by eighteenth Century Italian geologist and paleontologist Antonio Stoppani in 1873 through the popularization of the term “Anthropocene” by Dutch atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen in 2002 and argues that the scale and magnitude of global anthropogenic changes to the Earth’s climate, land, oceans and biosphere are so great, with many key processes dominated by human influence, that the geological epoch boundary was crossed within the last two hundred years.
  11. Ellis, Michael, et al. “A Stratigraphical Basis for the Anthropocene?” Geological Society of London. Volume 395, Issue 1. March 24, 2014
    • University of Memphis Professor Michael Ellis argues that the onset of stratigraphic signals and signatures of the Anthropocene as a Stratigraphical unit are Diachronous, spanning eleven thousand years or more, but many maximum signatures postdate 1945.
    • He attributes this to the fact that it is necessary to identify a critical change to a new regime in which anthropogenic influence is a dominant controlling factor upon biotic abundance and variability, sediment composition and flux, geochemical and radiogenic signatures, climatic changes, rising sea levels and loss if ice cover, and suggests as an example the appearance of radiogenic fallout and the “Great Acceleration” in global economic activity following the Second World War.
  12. Friedman, Lori and Pfizer, Kurt. “From Holocene to Anthropocen” Lehigh University. Friday March 3, 2017: http://www1.lehigh.edu/news/holocene-anthropocene
  13. Gale, S. and Hoare, P. “The Stratigraphic Status of the Anthropocene”. The Holocene. July 6, 2012: http://repository.usp.ac.fj/4736/1/Anthropocene_on-line-1.pdf
    • Gale, of the University of the South Pacific School of Geography, Earth Science and Environment, and Hoare argue that anthropogenic soils fail to meet many of the criteria for the establishment of stratigraphic sequences because they are compound and chronologically complex, are associated with stratigraphic gaps and changes in biofacies and lithofacies in stratigraphic sequences and many environments do not experience pedogenesis.
    • They further argue that anthrosol formation is markedly Diachronous on a global scale, associated with the diachroneity of human impact, and wide ranging event markers fail to coincide with initiation of human activity and that anthrosols do not provide the lowest marker of human impact, since anthrosols are products of continuous development from the early Anthropocene.
  1. Gibbard, P. and Walker, M. “The Term “Anthropocene” in the Context of Formal Geological Classification”. Geological Society of London. Volume 395, Issue 1. October 25, 2013. Pages 29-37
    • Gibbard, of the Cambridge University Department of Geography, and Walker, of the University of Wales School of Archaeology, argue that, as the rise of Homo sapiens defines the Holocene as separate from the Pleistocene, human activity and their increasing influence exerted on natural systems cannot be used as a separate Anthropocene epoch. Stratigraphic series, they explain, are identified by basis of novel Biostratigraphical and sedimentary changes, without which there exists no justification for a new unit.
  2. Goudie, Andrew and Viles, Heather. “Geomorphology in the Anthropocene”. Cambridge University Press. September 30, 2016: https://books.google.com/books?id=drIkDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=anthropocene+geomorphology&source=bl&ots=4SEVBrszIm&sig=1hvx-uvfydAhiPQi2zRkgOh6gZE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjH4dTj5dvSAhVY42MKHVS6BbAQ6AEIUTAI#v=onepage&q=anthropocene%20geomorphology&f=false
  3. Green, Pamela and Kettner, Albert, et al. “Impact of Humans on the Flux of Terrestrial Sediment to the Global Coastal Ocean”. Science, Volume 308. April 15, 2005. Pages 376-380: http://www.geo.utexas.edu/courses/387H/PAPERS/global_sediment_load.pdf
  4. Hamilton, Clive. “Define the Anthropocene in Terms of the Whole Earth: Researchers Must Consider Human Impacts on Entire Earth Systems and Not Get Trapped in Discipline-Specific Definitions”. Nature, Volume 536. August 18, 2016 Page 251: http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/1.20427!/menu/main/topColumns/topLeftColumn/pdf/536251a.pdf
  5. Hooke, Roger. “On the Efficacy of Humans as Geomorphic Agents”. Geological Society of America Today. Volume 4. September 1994
    • University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences Professor of Geological Sciences Roger Hooke [Ph.D., Geology, Californian Institute of Technology] argues that humans are the most important geomorphic agents shaping the Earth’s surface because they move vast quantities of soil and rock, 40-45 thousand tons per year including and effect of ten thousand tons per year on river sediment loads from agriculture; significantly greater than the 24 thousand ton annual sediment load delivered by rivers to interior basis and oceans and the ten thousand tons per year of till in moraines and outwash fans deposited by glaciers during the Pleistocene.
  6. Hooke, Roger. “On the History of Humans as Geomorphic Agents”. Geology. Volume 28, Issue 9. September 2000. Pages 843-846: http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/28/9/843.full.pdf
  7. Hornborg, Alf and Malm, Andreas. “The Geology of Mankind? A Critique of Anthropocene Narrative”. The Anthropocene Review. January 7, 2014: https://monoskop.org/images/5/54/The_Anthropocene_Review_1_1.pdf
    • Andreas Malm and Professor of Human Ecology Alf Hornborg of the Lund University Department of Human Geography argue that intra-species inequalities are “part and parcel” of the current ecological crisis, because fossil combustion, though attributable to the ability to manipulate fire acquired during human evolution, was not created nor is the fossil fuel economy upheld by humankind in general.
  1. Kettner, Albert and Syvitski, James. “Sediment Flux and the Anthropocene”. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 369, Issue 1938. March 2011. Pages 957-975: http://royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roypta/369/1938/957.full.pdf
  2. Kolbert, Elizabeth. “The Anthropocene Debate: Marking Humanity’s Impact”. Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. May 17, 2010: http://e360.yale.edu/features/the_anthropocene_debate__marking_humanitys_impact
  3. Laparidou, Sofia, et al. “The Anthropocene in the Longue Duree”. The Holocene. September 16, 2015: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683615594472
  4. Lemmen, Carsten. “Metabolic Changes in the Early Anthropocene: A Socio-Ecological Modeling Approach”. Alpen-Adria University. July 2, 2014: https://www.academia.edu/7516444/Metabolic_changes_in_the_Early_Anthropocene_A_socio-ecological_modeling_approach
  5. Lewis, Simon and Maslin, Mark. “Anthropocene: Earth System, Geological, Philosophical and Political Paradigm Shifts”. The Anthropocene Review. May 29, 2015
    • University of London Department of Geography Professor of Climatology Mark Maslin [Ph.D., Cambridge University] and Professor of Global Change Science Simon Lewis [Ph.D., University of Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences] argue that the Anthropocene creates paradigm shifts beyond the natural sciences, insofar as humans cannot be considered “outside nature” but as “part of” the earth systems and one of the most powerful forces of change within it.
  6. Lewis, Simon and Maslin, Mark. “Defining the Anthropocene”. Nature, Volume 519, Issue 7542. March 12, 2015. Page 171-180:
    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark_Maslin/publication/273467448_Defining_the_Anthropocene/links/550f142e0cf2752610a00a62.pdf
    http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v519/n7542/full/nature14258.html#access
  7. Li, Jialin and Liu, Yongchao, et al. “A Review on Anthropogenic Geomorphology”. Journal of Geological Sciences. Volume 27. Issue 1. January 2017. Pages 109-128: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11442-017-1367-7
  8. Lorant, David. “Chapter 11: Introduction to Anthropogenic Geomorphology”. In Miccadei, Enrico and Pliacentini, Tommaso. “Studies on Environmental and Applied Geomorphology”. Intech. March 21, 2012. Pages 267-277: http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs-wm/32993.pdf
    • Szent Istvan University Professor of Environmental Studies and Geography David Lorant argues that anthropogenic geomorphology is challenging for geomorphologists since it effect several branches of science, but that in an integrative research study reviewing the geomorphological literature, humans must be regarded as a geomorphological agent which has denuded and aggraded the Earth’s surface, increasingly altering its conditions.
  1. Meadows, Michael. “Geomorphology in the Anthropocene: Perspectives From the Past, Pointer For the Future?” in Lin, Jiun-Chuan and Meadows, Michael, eds. “Geomorphology and Society”. Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences. June 18, 2016. Pages 7-22: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-4-431-56000-5_2
  2. Monastersky, Richard. “Anthropocene: The Human Age: Momentum is Building to Establish a New Geological Epoch that Recognized Humanity’s Impact on the Planet”. Nature, Volume 519, Issue 7542. March 11, 2015. Pages 144-147: http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/1.17085!/menu/main/topColumns/topLeftColumn/pdf/519144a.pdf
  3. Monastersky, Richard. “First Atomic Blast Proposed as Start of Anthropocene”. Nature. January 16, 2015: http://www.nature.com/news/first-atomic-blast-proposed-as-start-of-anthropocene-1.16739
  4. Rozsa, Peter. “Nature and Extent of Human Geomorphological Impact”. In David, Lorant, Loczy, Denes and Szabo, Jozsef, eds. “Anthropogenic Geomorphology: A Guide to Manmade Landforms”. Springer Science and Business Media. 2010. Pages 273-291: https://books.google.com/books?id=6rFf6Gpy3tUC&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=anthropogenic+geomorphology&source=bl&ots=qZ3F0ehd8N&sig=-NQKKF4Ha018VerF_O6jIRmSY9w&hl=en&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiU0r-m5tvSAhVo9IMKHZLeBhkQ6AEISTAI#v=onepage&q=anthropogenic%20geomorphology&f=false

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272403864_Anthropogenic_Geomorphology

  1. Rozsa, Peter. “Attempts at Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment of Human Impact on the Landscape”. Physical Geography and Quaternary Dynamics. January 2007: http://www.glaciologia.it/wp-content/uploads/FullText/full_text_30_2/15_R%C3%B3zsa_233_238.pdf
  2. Ruddiman, William. “The Anthropocene”. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Volume 41. May 2013. Pages 45-68: http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-earth-050212-123944#article-denial
  3. Sanders, Robert. “Was the First Nuclear Test the Start of the New Human-Dominated Epoch, the Anthropocene?” University of California—Berkeley. January 16, 2015: http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/01/16/was-first-nuclear-test-dawn-of-new-human-dominated-epoch-the-anthropocene/
  4. Sawyer, Stephen. “Time After Time: Narratives of the Longue Duree in the Anthropocene”. Transatlantica Review of American Studies. 2015: https://transatlantica.revues.org/7344
    https://www.academia.edu/19668947/Time_after_Time_Narratives_of_the_Longue_Dur%C3%A9e_in_the_Anthropocene_Transatlantica_1_2015
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    http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471895903.html
  6. Smith, Bruce and Zeder, Melinda. “The Onset of the Anthropocene”. Anthropocene. Volume 4. December 2013. Pages 8-13: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213305413000052
  7. Suechting, Peter. “History in the Anthropocene: A Socioecological Approach”. Amherst College. April 10, 2015: https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/Peter_Suechting15_Thesis_0.pdf
  8. Szabo, Jozsef. “Chapter 1: Anthropogenic Geomorphology: Subject and System”. In David, Lorant, Loczy, Denes and Szabo, Jozsef, Eds. “Anthropogenic Geomorphology: A Guide to Manmade Landforms”. Springer Science and Business Media. April 10, 2010. Pages 3-9: http://www.biol.pmf.unizg.hr/_download/repository/clanak_2.pdf
    • University of Debrecen Department of Physical Geography and Geoinformatics Professor Emeritus Jozsef Szabo argues that humans as a geomorphic agent are equal to other factors in that their impact is commeasurable with that tectonic movements, volcanic activity and earthquakes, and even surpasses them in efficiency, in spite of releasing a faction of the energy.
  1. Visconti, Guido. “Anthropocene: Another Academic Invention?” Proceedings Physical Academy Lincei. Volume 25, Issue 3. September 2014. Pages 381-392: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12210-014-0317-x
    https://www.academia.edu/10697886/THE_TWO_CULTURES_Anthropocene_another_academic_invention
  2. Wilkins, Bruce. “Humans As Geologic Agents: A Deep-Time Perspective”. Geology, Volume 33. Issue 3. March 2005. Page 161: https://notendur.hi.is/oi/AG-326%202006%20readings/Anthropocene/Wilkinson_GEOLOGY2005.pdf
    • University of Michigan Department of Geological Sciences Professor Emeritus Bruce Wilkinson [Ph.D., University of Texas] argues that human activity is the most important geomorphic agent acting on the surface of planet, because while rates of cropland soil loss [440 meters per million years or more] exceed rates of soil formation [40 meters per million years], humans are more important at moving sediment than all other natural processes operating on the planet’s surface. He writes that rates of tectonic uplift are balanced by rates of continental denudation, but while denudation over the past five hundred million years lowers continents by tens of meters per million years, construction and agricultural activities result in the transportation of enough sediment and rock to lower all ice-free continents by hundreds of meters per million years, and that while the rate of erosion from large river fluxes is 16-24×10^9 tons per year, the rate of erosion from construction and agricultural practices is 120×10^9 tons per year.
  1. Williams and Zalasiewicz. “Are Invasive “Neobiota” A Biostratigraphical and Biological Marker of the Anthropocene?” University of Leicester College of Science and Engineering. April 10, 2017: https://www.findaphd.com/search/projectdetails.aspx?PJID=84376
  2. Wohl, Ellen. “Wilderness is Dead: Whither Critical Zone Studies and Geomorphology in the Anthropocene?” Anthropocene, Volume 2. October 2013. Pages 4-15: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213305413000027
    • Colorado State University Department of Geosciences Professor of Geology Ellen Wohl [Ph.D., Geosciences, University of Arizona] argues that studies documenting intense human manipulation of the water, sediment and nutrient fluxes with the Earth’s near-surface environments make clear wilderness is gone, and that human appropriation of ecosystem production and ecosystem service availability indicate our population exceeds the environment’s carrying capacity. She argues that this period overshoot is due to human ignoring how manipulation of the Earth’s near-surface environment reduced its integrity and resilience.
  1. Yusoff, Kathryn. “Geologic Life: Prehistory, Climate, Futures in the Anthropocene”. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Volume 31. 2013. Pages 779-795: http://www.polonistyka.uj.edu.pl/documents/41623/3701ab24-8247-49e2-a8fb-303b69f7d1c2
    • Kathryn Yusoff of the University of London School of Geography argues that the Anthropocene is axiomatic of a new understanding of humans as beings that are an intemperate force within geology and interacting with it.

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