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The Mississippi Project: Disclosing the Anthropocene in the American Heartland

Thumbnail No 62 If the Anthropocene truly marks a new geological epoch, then traces must be present everywhere. Geologists are searching layers of lake sediments, ice cores, and corals for stratigraphic evidence, while Earth system scientists collect integrated datasets of material and energetic fluxes in search of human fingerprints. Such a planetary-scale framework is key to understanding the significance of the ongoing shift in Earth history standing in contrast to mere environmental and regionally confined degradation. However, to understand how minor human interventions have triggered such change we also need to consider local sources and sites of transformation; global monitoring must combine ground-truthing methods and geoscientific assessments with local historical, geographic, and socioeconomic analysis.
  • Christoph Rosol
  • Thomas Turnbull
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