The city could play a key role in defining a new epoch. On Feb. 20, earth science researchers from Brock University will be collecting freeze-core samples from the bottom of Crawford Lake in Milton.

McCarthy and her team took a core sample of the sediment this week to see if they could find a particular year — 1950. That's the proposed start date of the Anthropocene, according to the ...

Scientists conduct core sampling at Crawford Lake on April 12 in Milton, Ontario. The layers of sediment from the lake hold centuries of data — including regarding the human influence on the ...

(Reuters) -Sediment deposited at Crawford Lake, a small but deep body of water in Canada's Ontario province, provides unmistakable evidence that Earth entered a new human-driven geological chapter ...

Research at Canada's Crawford Lake may prove that humans have pushed the Earth into this new epoch, starting in about 1950, The Washington Post reported. "In just seven decades, the scientists say ...

The Crawford Lake core sample in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum showing particularly striking varving patterns. (Paul Eekhoff), Author provided.

A section of a Crawford Lake core sample, which was under consideration by the Anthropocene Working Group as marker for the beginning of Anthropocene. (Getty Images: Lance McMillan) ...

Presence of plutonium and other evidence was found in core samples of the Crawford Lake sediments. "At present, we've had 70 years of the Anthropocene," Waters said.

A Crawford Lake core sample freshly pulled from the lake with especially vivid varving lines. (Soren Brothers), Author provided Today, its place within a conservation area excludes local ...