Industrial Slag is Becoming Rock in Decades, Not Millenia

The strange rocks that wouldn’t exist without us

Not natural, not quite unnatural, the strange new rocks of the Anthropocene stretch the boundaries of geology

Cumbrian coast research shows industrial waste turns into rock in decades

A tyre, an aluminium drinks can tab and a 1934 coin are found in rock on the Cumbrian coast.

Industrial waste is turning to rock in just decades, research reveals

An aluminum tab from a drinks can found encased in a new form of rock on the Cumbrian coastline has helped provide scientists with a shocking new insight into the impact of human activity on Earth's natural processes and materials.

New Rock Type Made From Human Trash Discovered – Geology In

Industrial Waste Is Becoming Rock in Just Decades, Scientists Find Scientists have identified a novel rock type that has formed not over mil...