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Re:A New Blend of Rock and Plastic Is Forming on a Portugues... by api on Monday June 24, 2019 @11:57AM (#20264853)
It happened with things like lignin after their evolution in the carboniferous, but it took hundreds of millions of years. In the meantime we got a significant fraction of the Earth's fossil fuels as indigestible plant fibers were deposited and turned into rock.

We're in the early anthropocene. After a few hundred million years there might be bacteria eating away at plastic waste in the abandoned basement layers of the cybernetic hybrid post-human/AI city-organism that covers most of the planet. DNA importation from off-world organisms exposed to cosmic rays might help.

In the meantime there will be layers of anthropocene-specific minerals deposited just as the carboniferous left its own unique signature.

Re:A New Blend of Rock and Plastic Is Forming on a Portugues... by devtul on Monday June 24, 2019 @01:17PM (#20265907)
They will be able to estimate the era by drilling garbage disposal sites and checking the layers of iphones.

"You can see this layer of IPhone 2's here"