What will interstellar travelers find in the distant future when visiting this planet, presumably after humans have died off?

Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz tells the science of such a story in a book called "The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?"

Here's part of what you'll learn:

New Orleans would become fossilized, but not San Francisco or Denver.

Your coffee mug could be a fossil, but not your Cadillac.

And, sadly, forget about the music of Mozart and Schubert and Duke Ellington, and the poetry of Shakespeare. Not much fossil material there.

There were no explanations in the advertising tease. But if you know anything about fossils, you can probably guess the reasons. The book will be available next month from Oxford University Press.