Stone-Ideas.com 
Greek Chatzisavvas company has small Christmas decoration items made of local marble and slate
The affiliate of Akrolithos company has its focus on design with natural stone
Briefly noted
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
Above the new International Railway Station of Bologna stands a Shoah Memorial. Its base is comprised of granite slabs, the side walls are clad in limestone.
31-km wide meteorite crater under Greenland’s ice-shield investigated
An international team of scientists used a new remote radar system and debris analysis to verify the deep deformation in the bedrock
Scientists find out that also in Southern Africa stone tools’ trade connected distant communities
Research by lithic experts shows that there are strong similarities in the design over a distance of 300 km
First rain in Atacama desert since 500 years caused a devastation among local microbial life – as it may have happened on Mars, too
The rains in the last three years are attributed to changing climate over the Pacific Ocean
(Christmas-)Gifts 2018 for people who adore natural stone
Like in the years before, Stone-Ideas.com’s editors have collected some inspirations for presents from the wide culture of marble, granite & Co
„Roads of Arabia: Archaeological Treasures of Saudi Arabia“ at the Louvre Abu Dhabi until February 16, 2019
The exhibition follows camel caravans, maritime trading routes and pilgrims’ paths to retract exchanges and encounters in the Arabian Peninsula
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
The Fourth Plinth of London’s Trafalgar Square is a London specialty: Long bare, it serves as a presentation pedestal for modern art since 1999
November 11th marks the end of WWI
The Verdun memorial commemorates one of the bloodiest battles of the 20th century
Seven webinars about stone and how to use it from the Natural Stone Academy
Since its launch in September 2018, the NSI initiative had 1500 scolars completing its courses / CEU credits for professionals
How Comet McNaught’s spectacular feathered tails are formed
The current sheet (where solar wind’s magnetic field changes orientation) makes the dust particles assemble in a special form
Istanbul’s New Airport has Brazilian granite for the flooring in the passenger areas
Grupo Guidoni provided more than 110,000 m² of tiles for the traffic hub of superlatives
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
Cobblestones like those in Terremolinos‘ Calçada Portuguesa are on show at Granilouro Company on the company website
US-scientists find a subterranean magma connection between two volcanoes in Japan
While Kirishima volcano was erupting in 2011, the magma chamber inside Aira Caldera at a distanc of 22 km deflated
Learning about the Himalayas by using planetary geology
With Earth orbiting satellite Terra, scientists collected data about the spectral „signature“ of minerals in remote mountain areas