Reserachers tackle the hot topic of whether to define a new 'Anthropocene' epoch as a formal unit of the geologic time scale. In the March-April issue of GSA Today, Stanley Finney (California State ...

Jurassic, Pleistocene, Precambrian. The named times in Earth’s history might inspire mental images of dinosaurs, trilobites, or other enigmatic animals unlike anything in our modern world. Labels like ...

The field’s governing body ratified a vote by scientists on the contentious issue, ending a long effort to update the timeline of Earth’s history. By Raymond Zhong The highest governing body in ...

The Working Group on the 'Anthropocene' (AWG) will provide its summary of evidence and its provisional recommendations on a potential new geological time interval. The Working Group on the ...

Nature, 184, 1310 (Oct. 24, 1959). Kulp, J. L., Program 1959 Annual Meeting, Geol. Soc. America (Nov. 2, 1959). Holmes, A. (personal communication, Oct. 6, 1959 ...

Time as Landscape, currently on view at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum and the Alfond Inn in Winter Park, ruminates on the scale of life and human action in relation to time and geological change.