Discussion
Since humans are having such a notable impact on the Earth and its life - a new, youngest epoch of the quaternary period is termed as :
Answer: C
The proposed new epoch is the Anthropocene.
The term, popularised by Paul Crutzen around 2000, describes a period in which human activity, through climate change, land use, pollution and extinctions, has become a dominant force on Earth's geology and ecosystems. It was proposed as the youngest epoch of the Quaternary period, following the Holocene, though it has not been adopted as a formal unit of the geological time scale.
The Holocene is the current formal epoch, beginning about 11,700 years ago after the last glacial period. The Paleocene and Eocene are early epochs of the Paleogene, long before humans.
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