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SUMMARY:Humans as the new geology - Mike Ellis\, BGS
DTSTART:20170213T173000Z
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CONTACT:Alex Lipp
DESCRIPTION:This title does not promise anything too new. We all know that
  humans have a significant impact on the planet. And we mostly know that t
 his is being codified through an attempt to invent a new geological epoch\
 , the Anthropocene. I am here to tell you that the Anthropocene is not a n
 ew epoch. If anything the Anthropocene is a new eon\, but less stratigraph
 ically\, the Anthropocene is a new operating system for the Earth. As Eart
 h scientists\, we have a reasonably good understanding of the rate-limitin
 g processes that dictated the pace of the first 4.5 billion years of Earth
 ’s history. What I want to explore (or at least propose) is the new set 
 of rate-limiting processes for the next... well\, for the future as far as
  we can see it.
LOCATION:Harker Room 1\, Department of Earth Sciences
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