Lacustrine sediments as Earth archive for the Anthropocene

Despite rejection as a formal stratigraphic unit, the Anthropocene refers to a time during which global environmental change developed at unprecedented rate. At the heart of the Anthropocene concept is the dominance of the force of humanity in shaping the geology and biology of the planet. Its stratigraphic beginning was suggested to be based on the signal of the fallout of radionuclides from the 1950s nuclear weapons tests in lacustrine (lake) sediments. In this talk I will present a brief review of the Anthropocene formalization process, and, as a lake researcher, discuss possible future directions and challenges that emerge from using recent lacustrine sediments as Earth archives. We can also discuss other possible onsets and signals of a geological Anthropocene.