Dammed Anthropocene

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Garry Peterson

James Syvitski a geology professor at the University of Colorado created this 200-year compilation of dams built in the USA.

He used it to illustrated his talk on the age of the human-shaped Earth at the Geological Society of London meeting on the Anthropocene, May 11, 2011.

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About Garry Peterson

Prof. of Environmental science at Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University in Sweden.
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