In 2016 the Anthropocene Working Group (awg), an appendage of the International Union of Geological Sciences (iugs), voted in favour of adopting it in principle.

2016年，国际地质科学联合会的附属机构，人类世工作组投票赞成在原则上采用这一标准。

The iugs's rules say that geological transitions must be marked not just by a particular event, but by a specific alteration in a specific geological feature.

国际地质勘探局的规则指出，地质变迁不仅要以某一特定事件为标志，还要以某一特定地质特征的特定变化为标志。