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The company Carl Picard Natursteinwerk has used the summer heat in June in Germany for a particular action: They staged their quarry of red sandstone as a bathing paradise
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Stonemasons will send national teams to the EuroSkills Gdańsk competition from September 05 to 09, 2023, in the Polish harbor city
Visitors have the opportunity to try hands-on job-related skills at the many ‘Try-a-Skill’ demonstrations
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Tafoni are created by weathering especially in granites or sandstones, by which the surface of exposed lumps of stone is covered with small cavities
The Arrábida Breccia red stone in Portugal has been added to the Geoheritage Stones list
The list currently names 32 varieties that have played a role in architecture and culture beyond the borders of their homeland
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A stormy, active sun during Earth’s first 100 million years may have kickstarted life on our planet.
At the European Stone Festival in Salzburg, stonemasons and sculptors will show how they turn their ideas into small sculptures
During the weekend from June 03 and 04, 2023, the venue will be the Kapitelplatz, close to the cathedral
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“Marble. Carving the Future“ is the title of the new marketing campaign of the Italian association Confindustria Marmomacchine with the support of the export organization ICE
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Japanese astronomers have observed a superflare on a star located 400 light years away in the constellation Orion, depicted here on an artist’s impression with a binary star in the background
Learning more about the ecosystems along the active vents at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 2000 m water depth
An international research team has discovered 3 new fields of hydrothermal chimneys with rich biological communities using chemical energy instead of sunlight
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In 2022, British archaeologist Timothy Darvill came out with the sensational thesis that Stonehenge was a precise annual calendar, from which the exact dates for the days could be read
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A United States Geological Survey webpage gives details on the Kahramanmaraş Earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on February 06, 2023, with a magnitude of around 7.5
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This mosaic pavement adorns the port of the Swedish city of Sundsvall. The designer was landscape architect Bibbie Leine
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A fossil of a liana gives evidence that modern-type rainforests may have been around as early as 80 million years ago
The European Association of Stonemasons EACD has a new board: President is master and engineer Norbert Kienesberger from Austria
Currently the 4th tour to the European Master of Craft (EMC) comes to the home stretch