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 ...

This rapid rock cycle challenges our very definitions of what a rock is. Classical geology defines rock as naturally formed solid material. But when waste bonds into a hard, cohesive mass through ...

The researchers have documented a new “rapid anthropoclastic rock cycle”, which mimics natural rock cycles but involves human material over accelerated timescales. They warn that the rapid and ...