The Anthropocene, a term launched into public debate by Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen, has been used informally to describe the time period during which human actions have had a drastic effect on the Earth and its ecosystems, including anthropogenic climate change. This book, written by the high-profile international team analysing the Anthropocene's potential addition to the Geological Time Scale, presents evidence for defining the Anthropocene as a geological epoch. It discusses Anthropocene stratigraphy and ongoing changes to the Earth system, including the climate, oceans and biosphere. The evidence for the Anthropocene is examined in detail, ranging from chemical signals arising from pollution, to physical changes to the landscape associated with urbanisation and biological changes associated with species invasion and extinctions. The scale, manner and rate of global environmental change is placed within the context of planetary processes and deep geological time, allowing the reader to appreciate the scale of human-driven change to the Earth system, and compare the global transition taking place today with major transitions in Earth history. Key aspects of the geological background are explained, providing an authoritative review of the Anthropocene for graduate students and academic researchers across a broad range of scientific, social science and humanities disciplines.

The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit - A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate

Understanding the Oceans together an internationally distinguished group of authors to consider the enormous advances in marine science that have been achieved since the voyage of HMS Challenger over a century ago.
The whole book draws inspiration from the seminal contributions stemming from that voyage, and individual chapters show how succeeding generations of scientists have been influenced by its findings. We see how they have
responded to the ongoing multiple challenges involved in undertaking the exploration of the ocean. The story continues up to the exciting developments in oceanography covering the late twentieth century, and glimpses prospects for tomorrow.
Covering the whole spectrum of the marine sciences, the book has been written and edited very much With the non-specialist reader in mind. Marine 	scientists, whether students or researchers, will welcome these authoritative accounts of significant stages in the development of their subject.
Other scientists will find the book to be an accessible and informative introduction to marine and its historical roots.

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