Small Ontario lake nominated as home of Golden Spike marking Anthropocene epoch globalnews.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from globalnews.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A few layers of sediment from around 1950 at the bottom of Crawford Lake, scientists say, show more clearly than anywhere else how human activities have changed the planet s functioning to the extent that a new geological epoch should be declared: the Anthropocene, or the age of people.
A team of geologists has concluded, after studying sites around the globe, that a tiny, deep lake in southern Ontario should mark the birth of the modern world.
Milton s Crawford Lake chosen to define start of proposed Anthropocene epoch canindia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from canindia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.