Welcome to the Anthropocene, Earth's new chapter

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Welcome to the Anthropocene, Earth's new chapter

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-anthropocene-earth-chapter.html

Since 2009, a cloistered band of hard-rock geologists and other scientists have toiled on a mission of great consequence.

Since 2009, a cloistered band of hard-rock geologists and other scientists have toiled on a mission of great consequence. On Tuesday they will deliver the last of their findings—the location of ground-zero for the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch borne of humanity's outsized impact on the planet.