The Anthropocene Working Group is in the midst of voting on a so-called “Golden Spike,” a sedimentary layer somewhere on Earth that best exemplifies the age of humans. It’s the last big task in formally defining the Anthropocene, which is being proposed as a new epoch in geologic time. David Kattenburg reports.
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