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When we talk about the geological time scale, we talk about different eras, we talk about different epochs, we talk about different periods and we talk about different ages as well.
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These are all different time periods that we talk about with reference to geological time scale.
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Now there is one important epoch that is recently been made that is the anthropocene epoch.
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Now what do we mean by anthropocene epoch? firstly, this is an unofficial unit.
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This is an unofficial unit in the geological time scale and it is used to describe the most recent period in earth histories.
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And why is it named anthropocene? we will understand because the human activities, word anthro is related to human activities.
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So in this recent period of the earth's history, the human activities have significant impact on the planet's climate and ecosystem.
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So the planet's climate and the ecosystems, the various and many ecosystems present on our planet earth, they are considerably affected by the human activities in the recent times.
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That is why the major role played in this time period is by human and the activities performed by humans, this epoch is termed as anthropocene epoch.
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Now this anthropocene epoch makes up the third worldwide division of the quaternary period.
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So it is part of the quaternary period that is 2 .6 million years ago up to the present time period is in the quaternary period of the geological time scale.
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It is characterized as the time in which the collective activities of human beings that is homo sapiens began to substantially alter earth's surface, temperature, oceans etc.
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That is the climate and the ecosystems.
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Now what are the activities that affected the climate and ecosystems of our planet earth? these human activities are such as agriculture, large monoculture practices, increasing urbanization rate, then we have increased deforestation, day by day the number of forest, the area forest of area is decreasing...