Geology of mankind

@article{Crutzen2002GeologyOM,  title={Geology of mankind},  author={Paul J. Crutzen},  journal={Nature},  year={2002},  volume={415},  pages={23-23},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:9743349}}
It seems appropriate to assign the term ‘Anthropocene’ to the present, in many ways human-dominated, geological epoch, supplementing the Holocene—the warm period of the past 10–12 millennia.

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