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 PressAuthor(s): Jan (Emeritus Professor of Palaeobiology, Emeritus Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester) ZalasiewiczIllustration(s): 25 black and white imagesNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2025Dimensions: 161 x 243 x 27Cover type: Hardback