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 Golden Spike Would Mark the Earth’s Next Epoch: But Where?</a></div>

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Before the Anthropocene can be officially proclaimed, a scientific working group must select a single site that permanently captures the new human-influenced epoch. Nine candidate sites — from California to China to Antarctica — are under consideration, with

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