Soda can tabs and 1934 penny found inside newly formed beach rocks

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In geological terms, we are currently in the Holocene, which began 11,700 years ago, after the Last Glacial Period, known colloquially as the last Ice Age. A new epoch, the Anthropocene, has been proposed to acknowlege the impact that humans have had on the the planet, and the term has come to be used in the media and in oth…