Simon D Turner

Biographic Data

ID7514294
NAMESimon D Turner
GIVEN NAMESSimon D
FAMILY NAMETurner
SIGNATURETURNER S D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College London
ORCID0000-0001-8692-8210
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS80
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
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…

  • A mid-20th century stratigraphical Anthropocene is recognisable in the birth-area of the industrial revolution

    Open AccessH Sellers, Mark Williams et al.ARTICLEThe Anthropocene Review2025Cited by: 1References: 83

    The formalisation of the Anthropocene as a subdivision of the Geological Time Scale has been under debate. Its stratigraphic boundary has been proposed as a precise Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) in the mid-20th century, but it is part of an episode of human-induced changes to the Earth System that have unfolded over millennia. Here we attempt to identify stratigraphical patterns of the Anthropocene from a previously well stu…

  • 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…

  • Early to Mid-Holocene Tree Immigration and Spread in the Isle of Man

    Open AccessRichard C Chiverrell, James B Innés et al.ARTICLEQuaternary2023

    The Isle of Man is a large island which lies in the middle of the northern Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland and, because of its insularity and size, has an impoverished flora compared with the two main islands. This has been the case throughout the postglacial and warrants the island’s description as a separate phytogeographic province. We have considered Holocene tree pollen data from seventeen sites on the island which together preserve a …

  • 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. …

  • The Śnieżka peatland as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series

    Open AccessBarbara Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, Edyta Łokas et al.ARTICLEThe Anthropocene Review2023Cited by: 5References: 107

    The subalpine, atmospherically fed Śnieżka peatland, located in the Polish part of the Sudetes, is one of the nominated candidates for the GSSP of the Anthropocene. Data from two profiles, Sn1 (2012) and Sn0 (2020), from this site are critical for distinguishing the proposed epoch, while an additional core Sn2 is presented to support main evidence. The Sn0 archive contains a wide array of critical markers such as plutonium (Pu), radiocarbon (F14C…

  • The Flower Garden Banks Siderastrea siderea coral as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series

    Open AccessKristine L Delong, Kylie Palmer et al.ARTICLEThe Anthropocene Review2023Cited by: 1References: 77

    The proposed Anthropocene Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) candidate site of West Flower Garden Bank (27.8762°N, 93.8147°W) is an open ocean location in the Gulf of Mexico with a submerged coral reef and few direct human impacts. Corals contain highly accurate and precise (<±1 year) internal chronologies, similar to tree rings, and their exoskeletons are formed of aragonite and can be preserved in the rock record. Here we prese…

  • The East Gotland Basin (Baltic Sea) as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series

    Open AccessJérôme Kaiser, Serena Abel et al.ARTICLEThe Anthropocene Review2023Cited by: 2References: 93

    The short sediment core EMB201/7-4 retrieved from the East Gotland Basin, central Baltic Sea, is explored here as a candidate to host the stratigraphical basis for the Anthropocene series and its equivalent Anthropocene epoch, still to be formalized in the Geological Time Scale. The core has been accurately dated back to 1840 CE using a well-established event stratigraphy approach. A pronounced and significant change occurs at 26.5 cm (dated 1956…

  • 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 Palmer ice core as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series

    Open AccessElizabeth R Thomas, Diana O Vladimirova et al.ARTICLEThe Anthropocene Review2023Cited by: 3References: 54

    The remote Antarctic continent, distant from human industrial activity, should be one of the last places on Earth to capture Anthropogenic change. Hence, stratigraphic evidence of pollution and nuclear activity in the Antarctic provides proof of the global nature of the Anthropocene epoch. We propose an Antarctic Peninsula ice core candidate for the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) to the onset of the Anthropocene. The Palmer i…

  • Mercury enrichment in anthrosols and adjacent coastal sediments at a Classic Maya site, Marco Gonzalez, Belize

    Open AccessSimon Turner, Simon P Turner et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2021Cited by: 3References: 13

    Elevated concentrations of total mercury (THg) are found in the surface soils and flanking wetland sediments at the Classic Maya coastal site of Marco Gonzalez, Belize. Significant concentrations (up to 1.3 μg·g −1 dry mass) of THg occur in leaf litter‐rich soils, as well as in the artefact‐rich anthrosol spread over the vegetated mound site of structures and occupation debris. The abundance and spatial pattern of major and trace elements measure…

  • Past and Future Earth

    Open AccessElizabeth Graham, Richard Macphail et al.ARTICLEArchaeology International2016

    Marco Gonzalez is one of a number of Maya sites on Belize’s coast and cayes (coral islands) that exhibit anomalous vegetation and dark-coloured soils. Like Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs), the soils are sought locally for cultivation and are underlain by anthropogenic deposits. Our research is aimed at assessing the role of the anthropogenic deposits in soil formation processes with a view to developing strategies to quantify the long-term environme…

  • Marco Gonzalez, Ambergris Caye, Belize

    Open AccessRichard I Macphail, Elizabeth Graham et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2016Cited by: 7References: 12

  • Excavations at Site C North, Kalambo Falls, Zambia

    Open AccessLawrence Barham, Tooth et al.ARTICLEJournal of African Archaeology2015Cited by: 14References: 17

    We report on the results of small-scale excavations at the archaeological site of Kalambo Falls, northern Zambia. The site has long been known for its stratified succession of Stone Age horizons, in particular those representing the late Acheulean (Mode 2) and early Middle Stone Age (Mode 3). Previous efforts to date these horizons have provided, at best, minimum radiometric ages. The absence of a firm chronology for the site has limited its pote…

  • Air pollutant contamination and acidification of surface waters in the North York Moors, UK

    Open AccessRichard W Battarbee, Simon Turner et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2014References: 4

    Despite the extensive geographical range of palaeolimnological studies designed to assess the extent of surface water acidification in the United Kingdom during the 1980s, little attention was paid to the status of surface waters in the North York Moors (NYM). In this paper, we present sediment core data from a moorland pool in the NYM that provide a record of air pollution contamination and surface water acidification. The 41-cm-long core was di…

  • Representation of aquatic vegetation change by plant macrofossils in a small and shallow freshwater lake

    Open AccessG Clarke, Gina H Clarke et al.ARTICLEVegetation History and…2014Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Fluvial stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments in the Pasinler Basin, eastern Turkey

    Open AccessPhilip E F Collins, Derek J Rust et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2005

  • Roman vineyards in Britain

    Open AccessAntony Brown, A G Brown et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2001Cited by: 5References: 11

    Stratigraphic and palynological evidence from trenches at Wollaston, Northamptonshire, suggest viticulture was extensively practised at this Roman site. It is argued that the apparent lack of viticultural tools and wine presses in the archaeological record in Britain is not reliable evidence for the absence of viticulture at that time