Letter: Fearing the shortest of geological epochs

Published 8 February 2017

From Tim Humphries, Epsom, Surrey, UK

The proposal to label the present as a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – is gaining ground (3 September 2016, p 7). Recent news suggests that it might be the shortest geological age.

Issue no. 3112 published 11 February 2017

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