Sentences with phrase «quaternary stratigraphy»
However, designation, if it happens, won't be quick and could be years away, according to the group, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) of the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy.
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Scientific Disciplinary Expertise: Quaternary stratigraphy, Paleoclimatology, Glacial geology.
He is a member of the Interim Engagement Committee of the international Future Earth research initiative and the Working Group on the Anthropocene of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy.
Disclosure Note * Largely because of my early writing on humans as a geological force, I am a member of the working group on the Anthropocene established by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy.
This is the case even though (and partly because) I am a member of the Anthropocene Working Group, the body created by the Subcommission of Quaternary Stratigraphy of the International Commission on Stratigraphy «to examine and debate the case for formalizing this term within the Geological Time Scale.»
Once this detailed work is completed in a few years» time — a required part of the process in seeking formalisation of the term by a number of geological bodies — it will first be submitted for scrutiny to the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy of the International Commission on Stratigraphy.
Not exact matches
For instance, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) says the Quaternary period started 1.6 million years ago, while the International Commission on Stratigraphy says 1.8 million to 2.6 million.
A multi-proxy approach to assessing isolation basin stratigraphy from the Lofoten Islands, Norway., Quaternary Research, v. 75, p. 288 - 300.