Sentences with word «technofossils»

That is why we can find the so - called technofossils or traces of human activity on the beaches, in this case the industrial waste of international companies which helps to calculate the age of the beachrock.»

Certainly some record of cities, plastics and the millions of fossil - fuel wells and mines will persist as what he calls technofossils.

Plastics already enable fine time resolution within Anthropocene deposits via the development of their different types and via the artefacts, known as «technofossils», they are moulded into, and many of these may have long - term preservation potential when buried in strata.

A: Technofossils are basically all the things we manufacture, large and small.

A: The technofossils will strike them as quite different as anything that's come before.

It will probably appear instantaneous, and it will be very hard work to figure out the path of this hyperevolution of the technofossils within the human stratum.

Q: You have called these humanmade fossils «technofossils.»

But there is an upside: The technosphere provides a lot of «technofossils» (think computers, books and smartphones) that can mark eras just as well as biological fossil markers.

Buried in sediment, these materials may be preserved over geological timescales, forming new rocks and rapidly - evolving «technofossils» for our descendents to marvel at.