The coastline near Derwent Howe, in England’s Cumbria, hardly seems a place where geologists would find new things. They’ve ...

Industrial waste is turning into rock in decades, much faster than the millions of years it is thought to take for it to form naturally, ...

Their findings came from analysis of a two-kilometre stretch of slag deposit, at Derwent Howe in West Cumbria ... beach into a rocky platform very, very quickly. “That rapid appearance of rock ...