If humans vanish suddenly all those ceramic items will remain, huge numbers of them will be buried... ceramics, glasses, etc... concrete may break down, but it will leave a very unusual looking deposit behind. We are not just talking fossilization, which requires a specific set of conditions, we are simply talking about preservation- A ceramic insulator from a power line or spark plug simply needs to be buried and not experience something like glaciation to grind it away... I suspect that would leave clear traces over millions of years.
Our strata and the strata below it will contain HUGE numbers of extremely linear deposits of copper, from pipes and wires buried by us- all terminating in areas where the strata have been disturbed in unnatural ways (former buildings) filled with unnatural deposits (the remains of those buildings)
It really seems to me this would leave traces for many hundreds of millions of years.
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What do you think would happen with objects like ceramics?
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