Posts Tagged ‘minerals’
We’ve created 208 new minerals: Time for a new, human-influenced Anthropocene epoch?
By Nicole Mortillaro | CBC News Humans have created 208 new minerals, bolstering the argument that the planet has entered a new epoch in its geological history, a study being published today finds. In the study, published in American Mineralogist, the researchers explain that the influx of minerals is the largest since the increase of oxygen in…
Read MoreFound: Thousands of Man-Made Minerals—Another Argument for the Anthropocene
By Shannon Hall | Scientific American Humans have dramatically changed Earth’s surface. Satellite images show New York City’s sparkling lights at night and the Great Wall of China during the day. But we have also produced signatures in the strata beneath our feat that can’t be seen so readily, like the plastic that litters the ocean…
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