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I Just Want to Say One Word to You: Plastiglomerate
听力内容：
60秒科学节目（SSS）是科学美国人网站的一套广播栏目，英文名称：Scientific American – 60 Second Science,节目内容以科学报道为主，节目仅一分钟的时间，主要对当今的科学技术新发展作以简明、通俗的介绍，对于科学的发展如何影响人们的生活环境、健康状况及科学技术，提供了大量简明易懂的阐释。
Humanity inscribes itself into the rock record of Earth’s history. People now move more sediment than all the world’s rivers combined. Fossil fuel burning has changed the composition of the atmosphere. Everywhere are traces of the sudden appearance of rare radioactive elements like plutonium, a legacy of nuclear weapons. And now there’s even a new type of rock°™that people brought into existence.
Geologists found the novel stone on the beaches of Hawaii. Its constituents include solids of volcanic origin, sand, shells and, yes, plastic. The discoverers dubbed the material plastiglomerate. The finding is in the journal GSA Today, published by the Geological Society of America. [Patricia L. Corcoran, Charles J. Moore and Kelly Jazvac, An anthropogenic marker horizon in the future rock record]
People’s campfires on the beach inadvertently helped create plastiglomerate. Some plastic, from a soda bottle, fishing line or a plethora of other possible polymeric sources, found itself near the fire and melted. The resultant sticky goo cemented all the disparate bits together.
The new substance appears to be persistent, destined to stick around for a long, long time. And that’s the kind of techno-fossil that may prove to be a hallmark of the Anthropocene age, this time of humanity shaping the planet.
–David Biello
