Abstract
Interest in the Anthropocene has risen dramatically and has been the subject of discussion in this journal. Decades prior to the current interest in the Anthropocene, the British geologist Robert Lionel Sherlock published his book Man as a Geological Agent: An Account of His Actions on Inanimate Nature (1922). In that book, Sherlock described the massive amount of sediment displaced in Great Britain up to the year 1914, and concluded that the human agency of surface modification of the Earth exceeded many times the natural processes of surface denudation. With the recent explosion of interest in the Anthropocene, Sherlock’s book has been “rediscovered” and is being frequently cited in the Anthropocene literature.
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