The Slag Farmers in Lens, France
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Almost 20 years ago, New Scientist Running a portion called “Think the ground without the people”, a thoughtful mind about what happens to our planet in thousands of years if the man has suddenly lost. It is a pleasant way to discuss all the effects of our environmental species, without using hand wring. The bottom line is that it has been a long time, but the end of the end will be returned, leave almost a trace of existence in our civilization. “Humble – and crooked comfort – reality is that the earth will soon forget us to forget more easily,” the piece ended.
I remind me when reading a New research paper In the journal Geology, In which researchers from the University of Glasgow, UK, reported to discover a country that destroyed the geological process that suggests that, in fact, the earth will not forget us.
They study the Geology of Derwent Howe on the coast of Cumbria, UK. For about 125 years, starting in 1850s, Dewent Howe is a major center of iron object. Its oven blast has created a large amount of a waste product called Slag. All said, nearly 27 million cubic meters in the oven slug are deposited by banks in a 2-kilometer container. The Slag Bank is still there, even if it disappears to the waves and tides.
To go to Glassow researchers, they find a series of outcrops made from an unfamiliar type of sedimentary stone. The beach used sand, so the stone should be a recent addition. Clearly clastic, which means it is composed of fragments of other rocks and minerals (clase) cemented in layers. At nearer inspect, they know that clasts are derived from slug heap. The only conclusion is that the material eliminates the slug, washed by the sea, which deposits the beach and then turns the stone.
And when I’m fast to say, fast I mean. The formation of clustic rock is usually with thousands or even millions of years. But here it happened in decades – a blink of an eye in geological terms. The slag there is in a large sum for a century or more.
Stone in the Cumbria shore industry in the industry to go to the stone for decades, research has been revealed
University of Glasgow
More awesome, the team finds two artefacts that are strongly involved in class proving incredible stone formation, or rounding. One is a penny coin painted in 1934. The other is an aluminum ring tab on the tab from a drink may not exceed 36 years old. In other words, the litigation will occur within decades. Researchers suggest that it is a perfect new geological process called “anthropoclastic rock cycle”.
Researchers suggest that this is a whole new geological process, the ‘anthropoclastic rock cycle’
“What is the odd here we know these man-made people attached to natural systems and become trap for decades,” Team Leader Amanda Owen told the university at the press office. “It challenges our understanding of how a stone is formed, and suggests that the waste material we make in making the modern world with an unchangeable effect of our future.”
Like the diswent Howe, around the world. The similar rocks Malila Near Bilbao, Spain, by 2022, but cannot be found strong. Waste is a global event, and maybe it turns stone wherever it will meet with the waves of the ocean, according to the team member David Brown.
Above, as such a problem, and indeed we have not yet known what environmental effects in such processes. But maybe discovering good news. If industry waste is locked on solid stone, sure that is a nice, smooth way to deal with it without having to deal with it, right? Dewent Howe rocks also have pieces of clothing, plastic, car tires and fiberglass, which otherwise round the environment. Perhaps rapidly siege can be a good way of removing our decritus.
There is another research upshot. For decades, the scientists in the world do not interfere when teaching a new geological epoch called anthropocene, which people recognize that people replace the natural processes of the land system. I am a great supporter of the concept because it emphasizes the width of our sense of natural processes set forth in the land of residence and safety for men for Millennia. Last year, however, the international union of geological science voted not accepting anthropocene due to an erosion of its start.
Certainly today is the time to return to that decision. Our influence above the ground literally settling new geology, beginning about 175 years ago. Incoming civilizations can see it and study it. If that is not a new geological period, then what?
Graham’s week
What am I reading
I listened to chapters, comedy poet Tim Key’s anthology, in Audiobook.
What I looked at
Wimbledon, Euro women and, after this month, British and Irish Lions Rugby test series against Australia.
What am I working on
My vegetable patch. I’m a newbie, so learn from my mistakes. How do you know when harvesting is ready?
Graham Lawton is a new scientist staff writer and author who should not complain: the impressive science of daily diseases. You can follow him @garhamlawton
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