In geology's long-lost golden age, students were taught that rocks are just ceramics that happen to have been made by God. Now, from the young island chain of Hawaii comes news of a rock type far younger still, that embodies deep time on a scale shallow enough to establish a new foundation for the Anthropocene geological column:
An anthropogenic marker horizon in the future rock record
Patricia L. Corcoran, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of
Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5B7, pcorcor@
uwo.ca; Charles J. Moore, Algalita Marine Research Institute,
Long Beach, California, 90803-4601, USA; and Kelly Jazvac, Dept.
of Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario,
Canada, N6A 5B7
published in the Journal of the Geological Society of America, reports on a new sort of conglomerate formed by the action of lava on plastic debris in shoreline sediments:
published in the Journal of the Geological Society of America, reports on a new sort of conglomerate formed by the action of lava on plastic debris in shoreline sediments:
