Charlie Wartnaby, Cambridge, UK
So I missed my opportunity to play geologist by “discovering” the weird anthropoclastic rock formed from industrial waste on the beach near Workington, Cumbria, UK. It seemed like an impossible kind of volcanic sandstone when we found the same thing on the north side of the town. It did indeed feel like a mark of the Anthropocene, but, on an optimistic note, that same beach is topped by awesome wind turbines hopefully ushering in a new, more sustainable era(19 July, p 24).
