An international group of scientists are naming the alleged new epoch the Anthropocene period. Geological epochs are characterized as long periods of time, typically lasting millions of years, ...

A new study highlights the striking coincidence in the geologic ages of the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona and a landslide dam that blocked the Colorado River, forming a paleolake in the Grand Canyon ...

The official timekeepers of Earth history are in an uproar after a key scientific panel decided this week that the planet’s geologic timeline should not include a radical new chapter defined by human ...

An international team of researchers has chosen the location which best represents the beginnings of what could be a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene Working Group have put ...