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Topic: What 'cene' is this?

Topic: What 'cene' is this?

Anthropocene epoch will be a short one

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Gary A Schlueter
Apr 24, 2023
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    We who watch the scientific world and their findings with slack-jawed awe, might have made the mistake to think that the geological age we know (and love) as ‘Holocene’ has changed (when we weren’t looking) to the ‘Anthropocene.’ I know I did. But I was wrong.

    According to the people who know, aka the International Union of Geological Sciences, “…

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