Protected Canadian lake chosen as reference point for start of Anthropocene Era

Geologists have selected a lake in Canada as the best site to mark the start of a new epoch dominated by humanity’s influence on Earth, known as the Anthropocene.

The announcement marks a big development in a long-running effort to declare that we have entered a new geological epoch, although there are three more votes before the site can be formally ratified by the International Union of Geological Sciences.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2381867-canadian-lake-selected-as-site-to-mark-the-start-of-the-anthropocene