Signs of a New Geological Epoch (IMAGE)

University of the Basque Country

Signs of a New Geological Epoch

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Artificial spheroids (left: carbonaceous; centre: plastic; right: metallic) and their respective compositional spectra present in the anthropocene sediments in the Urola Estuary (Basque Coast Geopark). Taken from the Master's Dissertation on the Quarternary Period by Aintzane Goffard (2015).

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