Carcharodontosaurus Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 I found this an amusing concept. If humans died out 100 years from now, and aliens visited Earth and found fossils on it perhaps 10 million years after that, they would have some wacky interpretations, such as classifying dog breeds as different species or even genera, or interpreting dinosaur fossil collections as being proof of human/dinosaur co-existence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Mud Posted April 3, 2014 Author Share Posted April 3, 2014 Most landfills will completely erode away with the landscape and end up as detritus in deltaic deposits. Some near coastlines (New Orleans, South Jersey?) may be preserved at least partially intact. It's funny and ironic to think that paleontologists in the distant future would consider landfills, of all things, to be lagerstätten. I agree - brings new meaning to the phrase one man's trash is another man's treasure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Dunkin donuts styrofoam coffee cups. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxytropidoceras Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 (edited) Dr. Mudd wrote: "Thanks for the link to the book and for clarifying the paper that the news article that I linked to discusses." The book provides the best detail as far as answering the question: "What traces will humans leave behind for future paleontologists?" The paper, Zalasiewicz et al. (2014), fails to provide any detail in reguard to that question, as this paper is more about philosophical ideas other than actual traces. The details of the traces, including events beds, extinction events, biostratigraphic markers, and so forth, that humans will leave behind for future paleontologists is covered in another paper. The paper is: Zalasiewicz, J., M. Williams, R. Fortey, and others, 2011, Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. vol. 369, pp. 1036–1055. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0315 http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1938/1036.abstract Other papers in the same, January 31, issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A also discuss the physical traces that future geologists and paleontologists will be able to find. This table of contents for this issue can be found at http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1938.toc . A related and freely downloadable paper is: Zalasiewicz, J., M. Williams, A. Smith, and others, 2008, Are we now living in the Anthropocene. GSA Today. vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 4-8. links at http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/18/2/ PDF file at http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/18/2/pdf/i1052-5173-18-2-4.pdf Yours, Paul H. Edited April 3, 2014 by Oxytropidoceras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drizzt0000 Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 lol missourian twinkies dont last to long few months at best but hey i dare you to go buy some twinkies let them sit out for 1 year than eat one! haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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