Like the pages of a diary hidden beneath a child's bed, the floor of Crawford Lake in Ontario, Canada, preserves Earth's most recent memories in clear, chronological order.
The AGW has spent the past three years assessing the qualities of a dozen potential golden spikes for the Anthropocene, working through the challenges of a globalto collect evidence and collaborate on the merits of each site. Finally, the working group has whittled their selection down to just one.
Being so small and deep, the lake's waters don't mix easily. Calcium and carbonate from nearby rocks dissolve in its waters and combine in warm weather to form crystals that settle on the floor, defining each season. The pollen, soot, and assorted isotopes trapped within these layers annotate the human activity in centuries recently gone.
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