Geoscientists will soon select an ideal geologic sample recording the global changes that mark the beginning of the Anthropocene, a proposed new geological age beginning in the 1950s.
. But the ICS still needs a formal proposal with an ideal geologic sample recording these global changes—a golden spike—to mark the end of the Holocene epoch, which began 11,700 years ago, and the beginning of the Anthropocene.
A site outside Europe or North America, which industrialized well ahead of other regions, might be a better record of changes that swept the world in the 1950s, says Yongming Han, a geochemist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’s Institute of Earth Environment. His team will propose Sihailongwan Lake, in a protected forest in northeastern China. Mud cores from the lake show not only the bomb spike and rises in soot, but also increases in spherical ash particles and heavy metals.
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