Synchronizing Earthly Timescales: Ice, Pollen, and the Making of Proto-Anthropocene Knowledge in the North Atlantic Region

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Figure 1  Stylized map of the Storglaciären in North Sweden in 1910 with no timescale. Source: Bolin Center for Climate Research, Swedish Glaciers (https://bolin.su.se/data/svenskaglaciarer/glacier.php?g=69). Map based on a photograph by Fredrik Enquist (1910).

Figure 2  Representation of the 1966 Camp Century ice core with a 100,000-year timescale. Source: Dansgaard and Johnsen (1969, 221) (Published with permission by International Glaciological Society, Cambridge, UK.).

Figure 3  Pollen diagram from southern England with a 15,000-year timescale. Source: Davis (1969, 325) (Published with permission by American Scientist.).

Figure 4 Diagram of the environmental system concept with multiple stylized temporal dimensions. Source: Oeschger (1985) (Published with permission by the American Geophysical Union.).

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