As of last Tuesday, the mark of human indistrial and technology activity on Earth is officially marked in the geological layer:

Welcome to the Anthropocene, Earth's new chapter (phys.org)

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-anthropocene-earth-chapter.htm...

    Since 2009, a cloistered band of hard-rock geologists and other scientists have toiled on a mission of great consequence.

    On Tuesday they will deliver the last of their findings—the location of ground-zero for the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch borne of humanity's outsized impact on the planet.

How the weight of the world fell on one geologist's shoulders

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-weight-world-fell-geologist-sh...

    Zalasiewicz pointed to an "embarrassment of riches" of evidence locked in ice cores, sediment and coral skeletons: microplastics, forever chemicals, traces of invasive species, greenhouse gases, and the fallout from nuclear bombs.

Proof humans reshaped the world? Chickens

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-proof-humans-reshaped-world-ch...

    When aliens or our distant progeny sift through layers of sediment 500,000 years from now to decode the Earth's past, they will find unusual evidence of the abrupt change that upended life half-a-million years earlier: chicken bones.

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