How to Use "Holocene" with Example Sentences
- 1. In an editorial published in may the respected publication argued that the holocene could simply be renamed the anthropocene .
- 2. Doing so would eliminate the need to find a boundary layer it continued because the holocene has already been defined scientifically .
- 3. Many scientists feel that human interference in the way the earth works is now so great that the holocene is history and a truly separate anthropocene has dawned .
- 4. It is that the further the earth system gets from the stable conditions of the holocene , the more likely it is to slip into a whole new state and change itself yet further .
- 5. To validate the anthropocene , all these changes will be measured against the range of variation in our current geological period -- the holocene epoch -- which began some 12000 years ago as earth emerged from the last ice age .