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Will Mines, Tunnels and Drilling Scar Earth Permanently?
The future will know us through our mines. Unlike many of the changes humanity has wrought on the planet’s surface, which will disappear in geologic time, some of our underground doings have left permanent scars. So argue the authors of a new paper examining such human impacts on Earth.
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I figure if you're going to refer to ants and wolves as animals causing bioturbination, like a worm to an apple, we humans are animals too and the term bioturbination suits us just as well.