Talk:Anthropocene

Does writing the first letter in the upper-case make it spelled differently! --Mahmudmasri 05:51, 12 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes. Equinox ◑ 19:54, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

From Russian?
Ravskiy E.I., K stratigrafii chetvertichnykh (antropogenovykh) otlozheniy yuga i vostoka Sibirskoy platformy. Trudy GIN AN SSSR. 1960. (стратиграфии четвертичных (антропогеновых) отложений юга и востока Сибирской платформы.) DTLHS (talk) 21:42, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Translated in 1966 in Geochemistry International as "On the stratigraphy of Quaternary (Anthropocene) deposits in the south and east of the Siberian Platform". DTLHS (talk) 21:54, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Hmmm! Seems like NYT got it wrong? — SGconlaw (talk) 01:14, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Not sure- can you verify the date? DTLHS (talk) 01:54, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
 * The date of which source? — SGconlaw (talk) 02:43, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
 * From Geochemistry International. Actually there are several hits on Google Books for the word in the 1960s so it seems plausible. DTLHS (talk) 02:46, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Can't find the full text of the articles, I'm afraid, though I have added a 1960 source based on the Google Books snippet and rephrased the etymology. — SGconlaw (talk) 04:17, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Archived feedback: February 2018
"Anthropocene" is not "the current geological period". The current geological period (that term has a technical meaning in geology) is the Quaternary. The current geological epoch (which is also a technical term, meaning a subdivision of a period) is the Holocene. The Anthropocene is supposedly the current epoch according to environmental scientists, yet since no international geology organisation has recognised it since, you know, it can only be measured by speculating and not by measuring rock layers, I really don't think we should be presenting it as "the current geological" anything in Wiktionary's voice. filelakeshoe (holla) 09:22, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * However, Oxford Dictionaries Online defines it thus: "Relating to or denoting the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment." — SGconlaw (talk) 09:51, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * That makes more sense (see ). Could the definition and main page at least be updated replacing period with age? filelakeshoe (holla) 11:56, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. (Administrators, in due course please archive this discussion to Talk:Anthropocene.) — SGconlaw (talk) 13:51, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * No, these words have meaning. It is a proposed epoch, not an age, and you can't just substitute one for another. Oxford Dictionaries clearly didn't ask a geoscientist. I have fixed the entry. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 15:54, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm not familiar with geology; I understood Filelakeshoe (and ODO) as meaning that the Anthropocene is a new age in the technical sense. Thanks for clarifying that it is actually a new epoch. — SGconlaw (talk) 18:24, 12 February 2018 (UTC)