That results in a range that spans decades, not centuries.

采用地层学断代推算出的时间范围是几十年，而不是几百年。

Official ratification of the Crawford Lake site and the Anthropocene epoch requires passing three more votes of geological authorities, the subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy, the International Commission on Stratigraphy and finally the International Union of Geological Sciences.

克劳福德和人类世时代的正式准还需要经过地质当、纪地层学小组委员会、国际地层学委员会和国际地质科学联合会的三次投票。

Stratigraphy, which looks at the soil layers in which artefacts are found, tells you only which ones are older and which younger.

而地层学采用的方法是通过对已发现古代文物的土壤层进行探测分析，从而判断土壤年代的远近。

Just published in geology by Aaron matching a geocrinologist at Melbourne University suggests.

刚刚由墨尔本大学的地层学家Aaron Matching发表在地质学上的研究建议。