Martin J Head

Biographic Data

ID1542323
NAMEMartin J Head
GIVEN NAMESMartin J
FAMILY NAMEHead
SIGNATUREHEAD M J
AFFILIATIONSBrock University
ORCID0000-0003-3026-5483
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS26
TOTAL CITATIONS168
AUTHOR COUNT25
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • The Anthropocene as a conceptual tool for education

    Open AccessNathanaël Wallenhorst, Simon Turner et al.ARTICLEThe Anthropocene Review2026

    In a world where facts are contested, the conceptual tool of the Anthropocene epoch – that is, the dramatic and clearly demonstrable ways humans have changed the Earth system trajectory since the mid-20th century – provides real value for society in general and for education in particular. As a unifying concept, it helps us (a) understand the transformed bioclimatic conditions in which we live, (b) appreciate how fragile they are, how rapidly the…

  • Response to Damianos—Anthropocene angst

    Open AccessColin N Waters, J Zalasiewicz et al.ARTICLESocial Studies of Science2025References: 7

    Damianos provides his views on the significance of the March 2024 decision by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) to reject the proposal of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG), the body we represent, to formalize the Anthropocene as a series/epoch of the Geological Time Scale. He draws upon ‘four years of ethnographic observation’ of the AWG, over which time this body provided him with access to its meetings and discussions. Given…

  • High-resolution analysis of the varved succession at Crawford lake across the base of the proposed Crawfordian stage and Anthropocene series

    Open AccessFrancine Mg Mccarthy, Robert T Patterson et al.ARTICLEThe Anthropocene Review2025Cited by: 3References: 39

    Four years after the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) voted to work toward defining the Anthropocene series/epoch with a base in the mid-20th C, the varved sediments of Crawford Lake (Milton, ON, Canada) were selected as the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) candidate. The initial major rise in activity of 239 + 240 Pu had been selected as the primary chronostratigraphic marker to define the base of the Anthropocene, but the pre…

  • Candidate sites and other reference sections for the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point of the Anthropocene series

    Open AccessColin N Waters, D Turner et al.ARTICLEThe Anthropocene Review2023Cited by: 26References: 56

    We review and compare proposals for 12 reference sections submitted to the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy, of which one will be recommended as the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) to define the base of the Anthropocene as a series within the Geological Time Scale. The sites span five continents and are located in diverse environments, with all but one sampled by coring. …

  • Evidence and experiment

    Open AccessChristoph Rosol, Gary N Schafer et al.ARTICLEThe Anthropocene Review2023Cited by: 9References: 14

    Together with research teams from around the world, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) has been meticulously quantifying and scrutinizing the global stratigraphic imprint of human activities, the results of which are gathered in this thematic collection of papers in The Anthropocene Review. How can such empirical research, which so impressively articulates the end of a relatively stable Earth System in the mid-20th century, inform our ways of u…

  • The varved succession of Crawford Lake, Milton, Ontario, Canada as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series

    Open AccessFrancine Mg Mccarthy, Robert T Patterson et al.ARTICLEThe Anthropocene Review2023Cited by: 17References: 41

    An annually laminated succession in Crawford Lake, Ontario, Canada is proposed for the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) to define the Anthropocene as a series/epoch with a base dated at 1950 CE. Varve couplets of organic matter capped by calcite precipitated each summer in alkaline surface waters reflect environmental change at global to local scales. Spheroidal carbonaceous particles and nitrogen isotopes record an increase in…

  • Formal subdivision of the Quaternary System/Period

    Open AccessMartin J HeadARTICLEQuaternary International2019

  • Formal ratification of the subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch (Quaternary System/Period)

    Open AccessMike Walker, Martin J Head et al.ARTICLEEpisodes2018

    Mike Walker, Martin J. Head, Max Berkelhammer, Svante Björck, Hai Cheng, Les Cwynar, David Fisher, Vasilios Gkinis, Antony Long, John Lowe, Rewi Newnham, Sune Olander Rasmussen, Harvey Weiss. Episodes 2018;41:213-23. https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2018/018016

  • The Working Group on the Anthropocene

    Open AccessJ Zalasiewicz, Colin N Waters et al.ARTICLEAnthropocene2017Cited by: 92References: 41

  • An optimized scheme of lettered marine isotope substages for the last 1.0 million years, and the climatostratigraphic nature of isotope stages and substages

    Open AccessL Bruce Railsback, Philip L Gibbard et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Science Reviews2015

  • Formal subdivision of the Quaternary System/Period

    Open AccessMartin J Head, Philip L GibbardARTICLEQuaternary International2015

  • Stratigraphy of the Kazusa Group, Boso Peninsula

    Open AccessOsamu Kazaoka, Y Suganuma et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2015

  • The Quaternary System and its formal subdivision

    Open AccessMartin J Head, Philip L Gibbard et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2015

  • Early–Middle Pleistocene transitions

    Open AccessMartin J Head, Philip L GibbardARTICLEQuaternary International2015

  • Formal ratification of the Quaternary System/Period and the Pleistocene Series/Epoch with a base at 2.58 Ma

    Open AccessPhilip L Gibbard, Martin J Head et al.ARTICLEJournal of Quaternary Science2010

    In June 2009, the Executive Committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) formally ratified a proposal by the International Commission on Stratigraphy to lower the base of the Quaternary System/Period to the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Gelasian Stage/Age at Monte San Nicola, Sicily, Italy. The Gelasian until then had been the uppermost stage of the Pliocene Series/Epoch. The base of the Gelasian correspo…

  • Early Middle Pleistocene Transitions

    Open AccessMartin J Head, Philip L GibbardBOOKEarly Middle Pleistocene…2005

    The Early–Middle Pleistocene transition (around 1.2 to 0.5 Ma) marks a profound shift in Earth’s climate state. Low-amplitude 41 ka climate cycles, dominating the earlier part of the Pleistocene, gave way progressively to a 100 ka rhythm of increased amplitude that characterizes our present glacial—interglacial world. This volume assesses the biotic and physical response to this transition both on land and in the oceans: indeed it examines the ve…

  • Last Interglacial (Eemian) hydrographic conditions in the southeastern Baltic Sea, NE Europe, based on dinoflagellate cysts

    Open AccessMartin J Head, Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2005

  • Coral δ 18 O records as an indicator of winter monsoon intensity in the South China Sea

    Open AccessZicheng Peng, Tegu Chen et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2003

    We have used correlative analysis between mean December–January–February winter wind velocities, measured at the Xisha Meteorological Observatory (16°50′N, 112°20′E) in the middle of the South China Sea, and mean δ 18 O data for the corresponding month from Porites lutea coral, collected in Longwan waters (19°20′N, 110°39′E), to obtain a linear equation relating the two datasets. This winter wind velocity for the South China Sea (WMII scs ) can t…

  • Environmental variability within the Chinese desert-loess transition zone over the last 20000 years

    Open AccessWeijian Zhou, W J Zhou et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2002Cited by: 5References: 2

    The desert/loess transition zone in northern China is sensitive to climate variability, which is controlled mainly by the relative strengths of the East Asian summer and winter monsoons. Sandy loess layers found in the Loess Plateau and palaeosol sequences found in the sandy desert demonstrate latitudinal shifts of the southern desert margin over the last 20000 years. Stratigraphic investigations together with radiocarbon and some thermoluminesce…

  • Establishing a chronology for the last 1000 years of laminated sediment accumulation at Lake Barrine, a tropical upland maar lake, northeastern Australia

    Open AccessD Walker, Donald A Walker et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2000Cited by: 1References: 6

    Radiocarbon dates from the uppermost 115 cm of laminated mud beneath the centre of a small crater lake are affected by the residence-time in the marginal shallows of the organic detritus which, after transport to deep water, forms alternate layers in the sediment column. The delay is estimated from radiocarbon ages of source materials, trapped seston and the upper levels of the sediment column based on the ‘post-bomb’ atmospheric radiocarbon flux…

  • The Early Epipalaeolithic of Wadi al-Hammeh

    Phillip C Edwards, Phillip G Macumber et al.ARTICLELevant1996

    This article outlines research on a suite of six early Epipalaeolithic sites located in Wadi al-Hammeh in the East Jordan Valley, Jordan. The sites are all in situ, stratified and carbondated, constituting the only well-developed archaeological sequence in the region for this period (c. 20,000–15,000 BP). The Wadi al-Hammeh group contrasts with recently excavated, contemporaneous sites in adjacent areas, extending our growing awareness of the cul…

  • Preliminary luminescence dates for archaeological sediments on the Nullarbor Plain, South Australia

    Richard G Robert, Nigel A Spooner et al.ARTICLEAustralian Archaeology1996Cited by: 5References: 7

    Human occupation of the Nullarbor Plain in South Australia has been known to extend into the Pleistocene since a series of major archaeological excavations was begun in the 1950s and 1960s. An antiquity of more than 20,000 years BP for human presence in the region was established on the basis of 14 C chronologies at Koonalda Cave and Allen's Cave (also known as site N145). The oldest date reported for traces of human activity was -22,000 years BP…

  • The human colonisation of Australia

    Open AccessRichard G Roberts, Rhys Jones et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Science Reviews1994

  • ANU Radiocarbon Date List XI

    Open AccessMartin J Head, Lois Taylor et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon1994Cited by: 4References: 3

    Lakes Barrine and Eacham and their small, discrete, forested catchments are sites of intensive sedimentological, palynological and ecological research. The studies that we present here concentrate on integrating population statistics of tree species of the living forest with their histories, as documented by fine-resolution pollen analysis (Green and Dolman 1988). Most of the work has been undertaken at Lake Barrine, where the last 5 ka is record…

  • Episode of Strengthened Summer Monsoon Climate of Younger Dryas Age on the Loess Plateau of Central China

    Open AccessZhaolong An, An Zhisheng et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research1993

    The Baxie loess section, just east of the Tibetan Plateau, contains evidence showing that the Asian monsoon climate experienced an abrupt reversal near the end of the last glacial age. Rapid deposition of dust under cool, dry full-glacial conditions gave way to an interval of soil development and reduced dust influx attributed to a strengthening of the warm, moist summer monsoon. A subsequent abrupt increase in dust deposition, a response to a we…