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Re:Fresh water on Earth emerged 500M years earlier than prev... by gus_massa on Sunday June 23, 2024 @10:38AM (#40767771)
Glasware last forever. I expect that a lot of bottoms of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_siphon survive in landfills.

Gold jewelry, but I'm not sure it can prove industrialization.

The asphalt of the roads may dissapear, but the gravel mixed with it and under it will create a very strange pattern.

Panama and Suez channels, unless they are very unluck and get destroyed.

Kitchen granite top and tumbstones. Marble may disolve if there is and acid environment.

Quarries and coal mines are huge.

Re:Fresh water on Earth emerged 500M years earlier than prev... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday June 23, 2024 @11:29AM (#40768152)
> glassware last forever

Million years [1]. (It devitrifies.)

> asphalt of the roads may dissapear, but the gravel mixed with it and under it will create a very strange pattern

Would this be recognisable at an industrial scale?

> Panama and Suez channels

Suez is right above the East African rift, so maybe 10 My. Panama no clue.

> Quarries and coal mines are huge

To where they could evidence industrial activity after millions of years?

[1] https://education.seattlepi.com/long-glass-bottle-degrade-la...

Re:Fresh water on Earth emerged 500M years earlier than prev... by gus_massa on Sunday June 23, 2024 @10:01PM (#40772160)
>> glassware last forever

> Million years. (It devitrifies.)

Very interesting. It's difficult to get hard numbers. It depends a lot on the composition and the temperature, so I'm more optimistic about they lasting for a few millons years at burried at 15°C(60°F), but I agree they don't last forever

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>> asphalt of the roads may dissapear, but the gravel mixed with it and under it will create a very strange pattern

> Would this be recognisable at an industrial scale?

I guess so. We have a lot of roads with a not random patterns.

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>> Panama and Suez channels

> Suez is right above the East African rift, so maybe 10 My. Panama no clue.

I agree. Both are in bad positions to last forever.

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>> Quarries and coal mines are huge

> To where they could evidence industrial activity after millions of years?

I guess they are. Look at this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjp6RHb7MtE the truck are huge, from time to time there appears a normal truck next to them and it looks like a toy truck. I think when abandonded they get filled with water, then with mud and decomposing plants, and then that will solidify and in the future they will have a huge "volvano caldera" but no volcano at the bottom. Also find the internal roads, cuts by explossions and other strange characterisitcs. The truck will have rot a long time ago and dissapeared, but they may find unusual levels of iron contamination in the parking lot.