ESPM 108B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Soot, Paleocene, Mesozoic

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Environmental Science, Policy, And Management
• Course: ESPM 108B
• Professor: Richard Dodd

Document Summary

Mesozoic : flowering plants -i di nos co - evolved. Kit mass extinction wiped out non - avian di nos plates shifting g 130 mya) (cretaceous / paleocene 66 a) my. Episodic volcanic eruptions t pleistocene glaciations caused local t regional changer. Human - induced change late pliocene - early pleistocene : hominids began evolving material - tech cultures. Stone tools : b wya in ethiopia agriculture pop. Industrial rev huge pop . increase forest clearance some think start of anthropocene. Anthropocene 4950 - p) : no level sea rise mass ext deforestation t development radioactive elements dispersed fun meteor bombs plastic pollution soot honorele bones left by global proliferation of domestic chicken. I 9th century weh usually 4-7 faster than historical. 20 t of x chg w/ in 5,00 yrs during ice ages avg in next.