Vicky Veritas

Why Crawford Lake in Canada may be the perfect “Golden Spike” to represent the proposed new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. This remarkable piece of journalism is gift-linked.

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https://wapo.st/3NCdVdF

Are we in the Anthropocene? Why Canada's Crawford Lake may hold answers

Canada's Crawford Lake may hold evidence that humans have fundamentally changed Earth enough to have started the Anthropocene, a new chapter in geologic time.

The Washington Post
Jun 20, 2023 at 6:11pmWeb
Show threadMichael PorterJun 21, 2023
@vickyveritas Thank you for the article - interesting. Also, kind of depressing that the spike in plutonium shows up so clearly, in a location so far from the tests.
Show threadVicky VeritasJun 21, 2023
@MichaelPorter You are very welcome! Dust can be lifted more than 2,000 feet into the atmosphere, so not too surprising, but, yeah, depressing.