Discarded. How Technofossils Will be Our Ultimate Legacy, Hardback

Discarded tells the story of the fossils we will leave as relics into the far future. It explores how the things we now so abundantly produce and discard ^—^ plastic bottles, mobile phones, concrete flyways, chicken bones, aluminium cans and many more ^—^ might alter with burial and petrify, to become future geology.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Author(s): Jan (Emeritus Professor of Palaeobiology, Emeritus Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester) Zalasiewicz
• Illustration(s): 25 black and white images
• Number of pages: 256
• Publication date: 2025
• Dimensions: 161 x 243 x 27
• Cover type: Hardback