The proposed Anthropocene Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) candidate site of West Flower Garden Bank (27.8762°N, 93.8147°W) is an open ocean location in the Gulf Mexico with a submerged coral reef few direct human impacts. Corals contain highly accurate precise (<±1 year) internal chronologies, similar to tree rings, their exoskeletons are formed aragonite can be preserved...

Forty eight years have elapsed since formal discussions were initiated, in 1948, on the position of the PlioPleistocene boundary. At the 18th International Geological Congress held in London during that year the Commission on the Plio-Pleistocene boundary recommended that “the Lower Pleistocene should include as its basal member the marine Calabrian Formation together with its terrestrial (cont...

Sihailongwan Maar Lake, located in Northeast China, is a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for demarcation of the Anthropocene. The lake’s varved sediments are formed by alternating allogenic atmospheric inputs authigenic lake processes store record environmental human impacts at continental-global scale. Varve counting radiometric dating provided precise annual-reso...

The uppermost Albian and lowermost Cenomanian succession at Abouda Plage, north of Agadir, in the Agadir Basin, western Morocco, is described detail, ammonites, microcrinoids planktonic foraminifera are recorded illustrated. lower part Ait Lamine Formation yields ammonites indicative the  Pervinquieria (Subschloenbachia) rostrata P. ( S. ) perinflata ammonite zones, Thalmanninella appenninica f...

Globally, Late Permian to Early Triassic carbonate rocks record several pronounced positive and negative C-isotope excursions, indicating a dramatic reorganization of the global carbon cycle. These C-isotopic anomalies provide important constraints on environmental changes that occurred during end-Permian extinction subsequent delayed biotic recovery. In this study, we present high-resolution d...