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Nuclear testing provides a chemostratigraphic marker for the onset of the Anthropocene.

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Nuclear testing fallout, including isotopes such as plutonium, radiocarbon, and americium, serves as a prominent and widely supported chemostratigraphic marker for defining the onset of the Anthropocene.

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The retrieved literature strongly supports the use of nuclear testing debris (such as bomb-pulse radiocarbon, plutonium, and americium-241) as primary stratigraphic guides for defining the Anthropocene epoch. Papers 3, 5, and 11 explicitly validate these geochemical signatures in various geological archives like lake sediments, tree rings, and peat bogs. While other papers discuss alternative or problematic markers like microplastics, none refute the validity of nuclear testing markers.

Evidence for · 3
The varved succession of Crawford Lake, Milton, Ontario, Canada as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series.
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McCarthy FM, Patterson RT, Head MJ, Riddick NL, Cumming BF, Hamilton PB, Pisaric MF, Gushulak AC, Leavitt PR, Lafond KM, Llew-Williams B, Marshall M, Heyde A, Pilkington PM, Moraal J, Boyce JI, Nasser NA, Walsh C, Garvie M, Roberts S, Rose NL, Cundy AB, Gaca P, Milton A, Hajdas I, Crann CA, Boom A, Finkelstein SA, McAndrews JH. The varved succession of Crawford Lake, Milton, Ontario, Canada as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series.. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196221149281

Crawford Lake research highlights Pu-239+240 and bomb-pulse C-14 as primary stratigraphic markers for the Anthropocene epoch base.

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Global Peak in Atmospheric Radiocarbon Provides a Potential Definition for the Onset of the Anthropocene Epoch in 1965.
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Turney CSM, Palmer J, Maslin MA, Hogg A, Fogwill CJ, Southon J, Fenwick P, Helle G, Wilmshurst JM, McGlone M, Bronk Ramsey C, Thomas Z, Lipson M, Beaven B, Jones RT, Andrews O, Hua Q. Global Peak in Atmospheric Radiocarbon Provides a Potential Definition for the Onset of the Anthropocene Epoch in 1965.. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20970-5

Tree-ring records demonstrate that the atmospheric radiocarbon bomb peak from thermonuclear tests provides a precise global marker for the onset of the Anthropocene.

Americium-241 in peat bogs as a global marker of the beginning of the Anthropocene: examples from Europe and North America.
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A. Oleksandrenko, Peter G. Appleby, M. John M. Duke, T. Noernberg, W. Shotyk. Americium-241 in peat bogs as a global marker of the beginning of the Anthropocene: examples from Europe and North America.. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1139/er-2023-0097

The presence of Am-241 derived from nuclear fallout in peat cores supports its reliability as a global stratigraphic marker for the beginning of the Anthropocene.

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