Radionuclídeos como marcadores de um novo tempo: o Antropoceno

On May 2019, the members of the Anthropocene Working Group completed a binding vote to affirm some of the key questions that have been agreed in 2016: the Anthropocene should be considered as a formal chronostratigraphic unit, defined by a Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP), using one of the stratigraphic signals around the mid-twentieth century of the Common Era. The fallout from nuclear weapons testing appears as the most suitable GSSP. In this article, the main anthropogenic markers are discussed as well as the sources or human-made radiation and the signature of nuclear we...