Professor Discusses if Earth is Entering New Epoch

Professor Stanley Finney, a stratigrapher at California State University, Long Beach, and secretary-general for the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), appeared in Nature magazine for comments about whether Earth is entering a new period described as Anthropocene: a time when the planet has been impacted by humans. Professor Finney suggested this is not a new era for the planet but rather an "event" in the geologic time period.