The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

Relative sea-level change in Connecticut (USA) during the last 2200 yrs

(2015) Andrew C. Kemp et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Spheroidal Carbonaceous Fly Ash Particles Provide a Globally Synchronous Stratigraphic Marker for the Anthropocene

(2015) Neil L. Rose   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Defining the Anthropocene

(2015) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Biology in the Anthropocene: Challenges and insights from young fossil records

(2015) Susan M. Kidwell   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defining the epoch we live in

(2015) W. F. Ruddiman et al.   SCIENCE

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

(2015) J. R. Jambeck et al.   SCIENCE

Spheroidal carbonaceous particles are a defining stratigraphic marker for the Anthropocene

(2015) Graeme T. Swindles et al.   Scientific Reports

Benthic plastic debris in marine and fresh water environments

(2015) Patricia L. Corcoran   Environmental Science-Processes & Impacts

Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction

(2015) G. Ceballos et al.   Science Advances

Holocene climate variability and change; a data-based review

(2014) H. Wanner et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The Anthropocene

(2013) William F. Ruddiman   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

(2013)   Nature Geoscience

Atmospheric Radiocarbon for the Period 1950–2010

(2013) Quan Hua et al.   RADIOCARBON

IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP

(2013) Paula J Reimer et al.   RADIOCARBON

Constraints on the Late Holocene Anthropogenic Contribution to the Atmospheric Methane Budget

(2013) L. Mitchell et al.   SCIENCE

Stratigraphic expressions of the Holocene–Anthropocene transition revealed in sediments from remote lakes

(2012) Alexander P. Wolfe et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

When did modern rates of sea-level rise start?

(2012) W. Roland Gehrels et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Formal subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch: a Discussion Paper by a Working Group of INTIMATE (Integration of ice-core, marine and terrestrial records) and the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (International Commission on Stratigraphy)

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Ice-sheet collapse and sea-level rise at the Bølling warming 14,600 years ago

(2012) Pierre Deschamps et al.   NATURE

Natural and anthropogenic variations in methane sources during the past two millennia

(2012) C. J. Sapart et al.   NATURE

The dilemma of mountain roads

(2012) Roy C. Sidle et al.   Nature Geoscience

Carbon Isotope Constraints on the Deglacial CO2 Rise from Ice Cores

(2012) J. Schmitt et al.   SCIENCE

Pronounced interannual variability in tropical South Pacific temperatures during Heinrich Stadial 1

(2012) Thomas Felis et al.   Nature Communications

Global Forest Transition: Prospects for an End to Deforestation

(2011) Patrick Meyfroidt et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Slow release of fossil carbon during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

(2011) Ying Cui et al.   Nature Geoscience

Sediment flux and the Anthropocene

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Greenhouse gases in the Earth system: a palaeoclimate perspective

(2011) E. W. Wolff   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Anthropogenic transformation of the terrestrial biosphere

(2011) E. C. Ellis   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Chemical signatures of the Anthropocene in the Clyde estuary, UK: sediment-hosted Pb, 207/206Pb, total petroleum hydrocarbon, polyaromatic hydrocarbon and polychlorinated biphenyl pollution records

(2011) C. H. Vane et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives

(2011) W. Steffen et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

A Coherent Signature of Anthropogenic Nitrogen Deposition to Remote Watersheds of the Northern Hemisphere

(2011) G. W. Holtgrieve et al.   SCIENCE

Long-term dynamic modeling of global population and built-up area in a spatially explicit way: HYDE 3.1

(2010) Kees Klein Goldewijk et al.   HOLOCENE

The Evolution and Future of Earth’s Nitrogen Cycle

(2010) Donald E. Canfield et al.   SCIENCE

Stable isotope constraints on Holocene carbon cycle changes from an Antarctic ice core

(2009) Joachim Elsig et al.   NATURE

Anthropogenic Impacts on Nitrogen Isotopes of Ice-Core Nitrate

(2009) M. G. Hastings et al.   SCIENCE

Combustion of fossil organic matter at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-P) boundary

(2008) Mark C. Harvey et al.   GEOLOGY

Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions

(2008) J. N. Galloway et al.   SCIENCE