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Miscellaneous: ideas around natural stone
A mysterious triangle metal pilar installed in the ground was discovered during a count of bighorn sheep in a small canyon in Red Rock County, Utah
(Christmas-)Gifts 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
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Science: tectonic plates at the Aleutian coastline, new mineral petrovit, Mount Everest’s glaciers and microplastics, juvenile Plateosaurus’ skeleton
Recent discoveries about our planet, its rocks, and other “stone” topics
Global climate: desert dust caused the end of the “Green” Sahara and led to a megadrought far away in Southeast Asia 4,000 to 5,000 years ago
Reduced plant growth in the Sahara led to increased airborne dust that cooled the Indian Ocean and reduced monsoon moisture for more than 1000 years
Miscellaneous: ideas around natural stone
The Friedenskirche (Peace Church) in Potsdam’s Park Sanssouci is an example for Europe’s 19th century’s love for Italian architecture
Far in the future: the East African Rift System will break apart, with Madagascar splitting into pieces
The breakup with a speed of around 3 millimeters per year is a continuation of the shattering of supercontinent Pangea some 200 million years ago
Atlas of more than 200 impact craters on Earth with topographic maps and satellite images
Photos originate from the radar scans of the Earth‘s surface during the TanDEM-X mission from 2010 to 2016
Science: a spongey form of calcium carbonate, an ancient ‘conveyor belt‘ of magma in the Indian ocean, industry metal in seabed sediments, counting the trees in the Sahara and Sahel
Recent discoveries about our planet, its rocks, and other “stone” topics
New mineral, named donwilhelmsite, discovered in meteorite originating from the moon
Its formation under extreme heat and pressure allows conclusions about the conditions deep inside the Earth
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