Holocene

McConchie, 2009). The Lake Tutira catchment has extreme and persistent susceptibility to land sliding (Hawke & McConchie, 2009). This is a result of the rapid tectonic uplift rates and soft rock characteristics of the East Coast deformed belt in which the catchment occurs (Hawke & McConchie, 2009). Active stream incision has caused over-steepening of the valley side slopes to between 10 degrees and 55 degrees, and dramatic local relief exceeding 250 m (Hawke & McConchie, 2009). Page et al (2009) discusses that a mid to late Holocene record of storm events is preserved within the sediments within the lake. The records indicate that rainfall and temperature varied considerably throughout the Holocene, from maximum warmth and wetness around 11-7.5 ka BP, which is warmer then present (Page, et al., 2010). Page et al (2009) also discusses that the record of storm variability derived from Lake Tutira provides evidence for periods of rapid climate change during the Holocene, with storm sediment deposits providing a clue into the conditions at the time of their formation, and contain information about controls on erosion and sediment transfer at the time of their…

Some say it started in the sixteen hundreds and others tend to argue that the beginning of the industrial revolution in the late eighteenth century was the first part of the Anthropocene. The industrial revolution would be noticeable in the ice cores that would show the significant rise in carbon dioxide levels (Kolbert, 2011, p.3). Yet, others still argue that there is no hard evidence to prove there is an Anthropocene epoch, we still live in the time period referred to as the Holocene epoch…

beginning event. For most, they end after a catastrophic event such as a volcanic eruption or asteroid collision. For the newest proposed time period, the anthropocene, things may be a little more blurry. There are many factors that may signal the beginning of a new epoch, but no one piece of evidence can say for sure if a new period should be defined or when this period would start. The author, Jan Zalasiewicz’s research has focused on collecting evidence to support the creation of this new…

In the article, “Recent Antarctic Peninsula warming relative to Holocene climate and ice-shelf history,” Robert Mulvaney and several scientists discussed the climate history of the Antarctic Peninsula and its relationship to the collapsing ice shelves. They observed that the ice shelves were collapsing which allowed the glaciers to drain ice at a faster rate. The ice shelves that collapsed were at the Antarctic Peninsula which has had the most rapid warming over the past 50 years. Mulvaney and…

completely real and not something the Chinese invented, something that a US president candidate, Donald trump, believes. Global warming has become a serious problem that we caused, we are the root of the problem. Our ignorance and desire to strive to be bigger and better in every way possible has brought us to a new time called the Anthropocene epoch. The Anthropocone epoch is a proposed epoch that begins when human activities started to have a significant global impact on Earth 's geology and…

concepts of the Anthropocene from sources. it will discuss the different theories of when the Anthropocene began, the occurring changes of the process of human activity and the effects of it. Exploring the development of the Anthropocene and the recent epoch in which societies have developed a global geophysical force. It 's argued that this term does not have a neutral characterization of a new geological epoch (Baskin, 2014 ). Maybe a more usefully understood as an ideology (Baskin, 2014 ).…

their careers effectively ended. So everyone is then afraid of challenging the paradigm. That causes scientists to take less risks and be less brave, merely accepting the paradigm. Everyone in the public listens to what the media had to say. Claim of the IPCC being the top two thousand scientists is far from true. None of the major climate changes in the last years were driven by carbon dioxide. Climate scientists need a problem to receive funding. People are told that the earth’s climate is…

There is a steadily growing consensus that recent human activity has had such an impact that it has shifted the Earth into a new geologic epoch of our own making. The advent of this epoch, known as the Anthropocene, has generated much discussion and tension between the various science disciplines. The major issue being discussed is whether there is a need for a new era covering the last three centuries of human impact on the planet. Defining this epoch, in terms of both time and space, has also…

After dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago, mammals began to evolve and diversify into new niches. In order to understand and disentangle this convoluted history of mammals, paleontologists narrowed the focus of their studies to horse because horse evolution occurred approximately at around 55 million years ago, and their fossil record is highly rich in details. In the next several paragraphs, we will discuss the morphological changes in horse from the Eocene epoch to the Holocene…

There is no doubt that humans have influenced the environment. The evidence of our meddling can be found everywhere from anthropology to mathematics. No society is free of this burden, though some have a distinct impact apart from the whole. The current geological age is the Holocene, the time after the last Ice Age. The geologic period is typically determined by the largest influence on the Earth. Until the 1800’s, human impact on the planet had been relatively low- stable even. Around the time…