| The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene CN Waters, J Zalasiewicz, C Summerhayes, AD Barnosky, C Poirier, ... Science 351 (6269), 2016 | 1423 | 2016 |
| Are we now living in the Anthropocene? J Zalasiewicz, M Williams, A Smith, TL Barry, AL Coe, PR Bown, ... Gsa Today 18 (2), 4, 2008 | 854 | 2008 |
| When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, M Williams, AD Barnosky, A Cearreta, ... Quaternary International 383, 196-203, 2015 | 575 | 2015 |
| The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, JAI Do Sul, PL Corcoran, AD Barnosky, ... Anthropocene 13, 4-17, 2016 | 342 | 2016 |
| Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene J Zalasiewicz, M Williams, R Fortey, A Smith, TL Barry, AL Coe, PR Bown, ... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical …, 2011 | 231 | 2011 |
| A stratigraphical basis for the Anthropocene? CN Waters, JA Zalasiewicz, M Williams, MA Ellis, AM Snelling Geological Society, London, Special Publications 395 (1), 1-21, 2014 | 208 | 2014 |
| The Working Group on the Anthropocene: Summary of evidence and interim recommendations J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, CP Summerhayes, AP Wolfe, AD Barnosky, ... Anthropocene 19, 55-60, 2017 | 203 | 2017 |
| Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene W Steffen, R Leinfelder, J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, M Williams, ... Earth's Future 4 (8), 324-345, 2016 | 145 | 2016 |
| The technofossil record of humans J Zalasiewicz, M Williams, CN Waters, AD Barnosky, P Haff The Anthropocene Review 1 (1), 34-43, 2014 | 134 | 2014 |
| Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective J Zalasiewicz, M Williams, CN Waters, AD Barnosky, J Palmesino, ... The Anthropocene Review 4 (1), 9-22, 2017 | 126 | 2017 |
| Diachronous beginnings of the Anthropocene: The lower bounding surface of anthropogenic deposits M Edgeworth, D deB Richter, C Waters, P Haff, C Neal, SJ Price The Anthropocene Review 2 (1), 33-58, 2015 | 126 | 2015 |
| The anthropocene J Zalasiewicz, C Waters, M Williams Geologic Time Scale 2020, 1257-1280, 2020 | 122 | 2020 |
| A lithostratigraphical framework for the Carboniferous successions of southern Great Britain (Onshore) CN Waters, RA Waters, WJ Barclay, JR Davies British Geological Survey, 2009 | 104 | 2009 |
| Can nuclear weapons fallout mark the beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch? CN Waters, JPM Syvitski, A Gałuszka, GJ Hancock, J Zalasiewicz, ... Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 71 (3), 46-57, 2015 | 101 | 2015 |
| Carboniferous: extensional basins, advancing deltas and coal swamps CN Waters, SJ Davies In: The geology of England and Wales/edited by PJ Brenchley and PF Rawson …, 2006 | 95 | 2006 |
| Nature and timing of Late Mississippian to Mid-Pennsylvanian glacio-eustatic sea-level changes of the Pennine Basin, UK CN Waters, DJ Condon Journal of the Geological Society 169 (1), 37-51, 2012 | 94 | 2012 |
| What status for the Quaternary? PL Gibbard, AG Smith, JA Zalasiewicz, TL Barry, D Cantrill, AL Coe, ... Boreas 34 (1), 1-6, 2005 | 94 | 2005 |
| Making the case for a formal Anthropocene Epoch: an analysis of ongoing critiques J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, AP Wolfe, AD Barnosky, A Cearreta, ... | 88 | 2017 |
| An assessment of lithostratigraphy for anthropogenic deposits JR Ford, SJ Price, AH Cooper, CN Waters Geological Society, London, Special Publications 395 (1), 55-89, 2014 | 88 | 2014 |
| Lithostratigraphical framework for Carboniferous successions of Great Britain (onshore) C Waters, M Browne, M Dean, J Powell British Geological Survey, 2007 | 84 | 2007 |
