Industrial waste can turn into rock in as little as 35 years, new research reveals, instead of the thousands or millions of years previously assumed.

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: a ...

Researchers dubbed this newly discovered process the "rapid anthropoclastic rock cycle." The findings challenge long-standing theories about how rocks form and suggest industries have far less ...