Session: Adieu to the Anthropocene? Debating the Formality of Geologic Time in the Face of Accelerating Changes in Earth Processes (a late-breaking session sponsored by the Geochronology Division) (GSA Connects 2024 Meeting in Anaheim, California)

Session No. 148

Monday, 23 September 2024: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

204A (Anaheim Convention Center)

Adieu to the Anthropocene? Debating the Formality of Geologic Time in the Face of Accelerating Changes in Earth Processes (a late-breaking session sponsored by the Geochronology Division)

GSA Geochronology Division

Brad E. Rosenheim, Tiffany Rivera, Elizabeth Niespolo and Robin B. Trayler, Chairs

Paper #

Start Time

1:30 PM

Introductory Remarks

Recorded Presentation

148-1

1:35 PM

IT'S ABOUT TIME: CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY, DIACHRONEITY, AND THE DEFINITION OF THE ANTHROPOCENE

CRAMER, Bradley D., Iowa Geological Survey, University of Iowa, 340 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242

148-6

1:55 PM

THE ANTHROPOCENE IS PLASTIC

NICOLL, Kathleen, Department of Geography, School of Environment, Sustainability and Society, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, RANGEL-BUITRAGO, Nelson, Programa de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Atlántico 080020, Colombia and NEAL, William J., Department of Geology, Grand Valley State University, The Seymour K. & Esther R. Padnos Hall of Science, 213A, One Campus Drive, Allendale, MI 49401-9403

Recorded Presentation

148-2

2:15 PM

PLASTICS AND THE ANTHROPOCENE

CORCORAN, Patricia L., Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond St. N, London, ON N6A5B7, Canada

Recorded Presentation

2:35 PM

Panel Discussion

148-3

2:55 PM

BEYOND THE EPOCHAL ANTHROPOCENE: EARTH SCIENCE FOR A HUMAN-TRANSFORMED PLANET

ELLIS, Erle, Geography & Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD 21250