Search results for "Geological Time Scale"

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The Burdigalian GSSP: the missing tile to complete the Neogene interval of the Geological Time Scale

2014

Integrated stratigraphyGSSPBurdigalian GSSBurdigalian; GSSP; Geological Time ScaleBurdigalianMediterranean BasinBurdigalian GSS; Integrated stratigraphy; Mediterranean Basin; Atlantic OceanAtlantic OceanGeological Time Scale
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Soil is the best testifier of the diachronous dawn of the Anthropocene

2021

Humans act at worldwide scale as a growing geomorphic agent since mid‐Holocene (8,200–4,200 y BP) through the pervasive impacts of domestication, deforestation, agriculture, urbanization, and mining. The concept of Anthropocene has been introduced exactly to indicate the timespan in which humans have joined with other natural forces in impacting the outermost shell of the planet and the biosphere. Soils, which are the Earth's skin, are sensitive archives of any major human‐induced local to global change. Especially when buried, soils can permanently preserve the primordial traces of a significant impact of man on the environment, which occurred at different times and rates in different area…

Earth scienceagriculture / diachroneity / Geological Time Scale / golden spike / Great Acceleration / Holocene / Homo sapiensSoil ScienceBiosphereGlobal changePlant ScienceDiachronousNatural (archaeology)GeographyDeforestationAnthropoceneSettore AGR/14 - PedologiaEarly anthropoceneHolocene
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