The waste material humans are producing in creating the modern world is going to have an "irreversible impact on our future".

Samples from slag cliffs in England reveal industrial waste products can turn into rock in less than four decades, challenging assumptions about how rocks form.

Petro- or rock-derived organic carbon (Petro-OC) is found in sedimentary rocks and released ... the role of Petro-OC in the global carbon cycle. These include how the rate of weathering is being ...

"For a couple of hundred years, we've understood the rock cycle as a natural process that ... and air to create natural cements that bind sedimentary rocks together, such as calcite, goethite ...

As detailed in a study published April 10 in the journal Geology, the researchers claim to be the first to fully document and date a complete “rapid anthropoclastic rock cycle” on land ...

These cements are the same materials that bind together natural sedimentary rocks ... to happen with similar material in a natural rock cycle. An aluminium drinks can tab was one item found ...

They believe the cycle is likely to be underway at similar ... These cements are the same materials that bind together natural sedimentary rocks, but the chemical reactions cause the process ...

These cements are the same materials that bind together natural sedimentary rocks, but the chemical reactions cause the process to happen much faster than we have assumed for similar material in a ...

The researchers have documented a new “rapid anthropoclastic rock cycle”, which mimics natural ... same materials that bind together natural sedimentary rocks, but the chemical reactions ...

“It was an iron carbonate, directly analogous to a mineral called calcite found in sedimentary rocks like limestone ... of the ancient Martian carbon cycle. “Now we have evidence that confirms ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Gather your supplies! In this episode we will use everyday materials to create a model of the rock cycle and explore the three different categories of rock. Sedimentary rocks ...