The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.

- Kenneth Lacovara

If we want to know how the Earth's biosphere is going to respond to the things that humans are doing to the planet right now, the only evidence that …

- Kenneth Lacovara

There's no doubt if you could go 5, 10, 15 million years into the future and dig down to 2016, you would be able to find the geological evidence that…

- Kenneth Lacovara

In our case, we are in the Cenozoic Era, which started at the end of the time of the dinosaurs. We are in the Quaternary Period, which is within the …

- Kenneth Lacovara

Certainly, we have entered into a new age on our planet.

- Kenneth Lacovara

The Anthropocene essentially would be the time of human influence on the planet. That's controversial though, because geology is a retrospective disc…

- Kenneth Lacovara

We're changing things, in many cases in irreparable ways, and that will certainly be recorded in the geological record.

- Kenneth Lacovara

If you were back in the Cretaceous Period - the last of the time of the dinosaurs - and you were driving from New York to Philadelphia on the New Jer…

- Kenneth Lacovara

When the dinosaurs go extinct and 75 percent of life goes extinct after a meteor hits the planet, that's an era boundary. That's when we change from …

- Kenneth Lacovara