The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

Waters, Colin N.; Zalasiewicz, Jan; Summerhayes, Colin; Barnosky, Anthony D.; Poirier, Clément; Gałuszka, Agnieszka; Cearreta, Alejandro; Edgeworth, Matt; Ellis, Erle C.; Ellis, Michael; Jeandel, Catherine; Leinfelder, Reinhold; McNeill, J. R.; Richter, Daniel deB.; Steffen, Will; Syvitski, James; Vidas, Davor; Wagreich, Michael; Williams, Mark; Zhisheng, An; Grinevald, Jacques; Odada, Eric; Oreskes, Naomi; Wolfe, Alexander P.. 2016. The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene. Science 351(6269): aad2622. [Download PDF]