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New chapter in Earth history: Fallout from nuclear weapons tests marks dawn Anthropocene?

2015-05-11 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: An international group of scientists has proposed that fallout from hundreds of nuclear weapons tests in the late 1940s to early 1960s could be used to mark the dawn of a new geological age in Earth history -- the Anthropocene. The study, led by Dr Colin Waters of the British Geological Survey, published new research in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The research involved 10 members of the Anthropocene Working Group that is chaired by Professor Jan Zalasiewicz of the Department of Geology...

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