Example Sentences

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“There’s no guarantee that the Anthropocene will be agreed upon,” says Jan Zalasiewicz, a Leicester stratigrapher and longtime AWG head who now leads the quaternary subcommission.

From Science Magazine • May 5, 2022

“It’s just a personal view, but I think it would be confusing to have the same term having different meanings,” said a stratigrapher.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2019

One of the loudest critics of the Anthropocene is Stanley Finney, who as the secretary-general of the IUGS, the body that ratifies changes to the timescale, is perhaps the most powerful stratigrapher in the world.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2019

At a meeting of the Geological Society of London, in 2006, a stratigrapher named Jan Zalasiewicz argued that it was time to look at the concept seriously.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2019