Eric O. Odada

TL;DR: C climatic, biological, and geochemical signatures of human activity in sediments and ice cores, Combined with deposits of new materials and radionuclides, as well as human-caused modification of sedimentary processes, the Anthropocene stands alone stratigraphically as a new epoch beginning sometime in the mid–20th century.

TL;DR: In this article, the boundary of the Anthropocene geological time interval as an epoch is defined as the time of the first nuclear bomb explosion, on July 16th 1945 at Alamogordo, New Mexico; additional bombs were detonated at the average rate of one every 9.6 days until 1988 with attendant worldwide fallout easily identifiable in the chemostratigraphic record.

TL;DR: Tectonic setting of the East African lakes East African climate physical limnology aquatic chemistry food webs and fisheries sedimentary processes and desciphering the past in large lakes impact of man historical note.

TL;DR: The Anthropocene Working Group on the Anthropocene (AWG for Anthropocene) has been critically analysing the case for formalization of this proposed but still informal geological time unit as discussed by the authors, and a preliminary summary of evidence and interim recommendations was presented by the Working Group at the 35th International Geological Congress in Cape Town, South Africa in August 2016, together with results of voting by members of the AWG indicating the current balance of opinion on major questions surrounding the anthropocene.

TL;DR: The development of the Cenozoic East African Rift System (EARS) profoundly re-shaped the landscape and significantly increased the amplitude of short-term environmental response to climate variation as mentioned in this paper.