Scientists have picked the bottom of Crawford Lake in Ontario as the "golden spike" to mark the start of a new proposed geological epoch — the Anthropocene. The announcement was made at a media ...

the scientists are proposing a small but deep lake outside of Toronto, Canada — Crawford Lake — to place a historic marker. "It's quite clear that the scale of change has intensified ...

A group of scientists said Tuesday the best evidence for humanity’s overwhelming impact on the planet could be found at Crawford Lake in Milton, Ontario. The lake’s finely layered sediments ...

Crawford Lake in Canada was ultimately selected. The lake sits in a hollowed-out pocket of limestone atop the Niagara Escarpment, west of Toronto. In prior centuries the location was settled by ...

Crawford Lake, Canada, chosen as the primary marker to identify the start of the Anthropocene epoch. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 07 ...

Locals used to say that Crawford Lake was bottomless. Its waters ran deeper than people could reach. Anything that dropped into the basin, it seemed, would fall till the end of time. Yet when ...

Out of 12 locations around the world, Crawford Lake in Ontario, Canada, has been selected as the site that would mark the official beginning of the Anthropocene, a proposed geologic epoch starting ...

On Tuesday, the scientists announced the geological site — Crawford Lake in Ontario, Canada — that best captures the geological impact of the Anthropocene, according to their research.

At last, the geologists say, they’ve found their holy grail. It’s little Crawford Lake in Ontario, Canada. There, the waters are so deep that whatever sinks down to the floor usually remains ...

A panel of scientists on Tuesday chose a small suburban lake in Ontario, Canada, as the symbolic starting ... about the dawn of the human era. Crawford Lake could be used to define the start ...

July 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- An international group of researchers has selected Conservation Halton's Crawford Lake in Milton ... based mainly in Canada, has been studying well-preserved ...

Crawford Lake was chosen among 12 golden spike candidates ... Posted: 3 days ago. Environment Canada says air quality in the city is 'very high risk' as of noon Friday. 3 days agoEnvironment ...