The Anthropocene as a Nuclear Age
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
This is true for the Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, Triassic, and Cretaceous. This one is marking the boundary of two ages in the middle Triassic near Bagolino, in the Italian Alps. The period of above-ground nuclear tests (1945-1963) is clearly visible in plutonium isotope concentrations (right). Rexcornot/Wikimedia.
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