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CTOnews.com, March 18 (Xinhua) Brazil's Trindade Island island is one of the global green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) protection sites, thousands of green sea turtles come here every year to lay eggs.

Tu Yuan WikiMedia but scientists recently found rocks made of plastic fragments on the island. The melted plastic is intertwined with the rocks on the island. The researchers say this is direct evidence of human influence on the earth's geological cycle.

CTOnews.com translated Fernanda Avelar Santos, a geologist at Federal University of Parana, as follows: "this is both the latest and terrible evidence that pollution has affected geology."

Santos and her team conducted chemical tests to find out what kind of plastic is called "plastic rock" in the rock. "through our research, we have determined that the pollution mainly comes from fishing nets, which is the most common debris on the island of Trindade in Brazil," she said.

Santos said the nets were piled up on the beach through ocean currents, and as the temperature rose, the plastic melted and embedded in the beach's natural materials.

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