Stone Stories
Space salad: no soil needed for the „Veggie” chamber but plant pillows with clay like used on baseball fields
Nasa published research results about red romaine lettuce grown on board the International Space Station (ISS)
On the q.t.: in 2018, a giant underwater volcano formed offshore the Comoros archipelago between Africa and Madagascar
Scientists analyzed the emptying of a magma chamber of 3.4 cubic kilometers in about 30 km depth in the Earth mantle
In German concentration camps quarries were used for annihilation
Under Nazi-rule the German SS entertained its own building supplies trade
Study reveals how nodules can stay on top of the sediments at the bottom of the sea
The clumps of rare-earth and other critical elements are associated to deep-sea fauna / Growth of 10-20 mm in 1 million years
Is there a water cycle deep inside our planet?
Researchers have found that minerals can carry large quantities of water from the subduction zones into the Earth’s interior
Swedish researchers: The inscriptions on the Rök runestone are about people’s fear of weather extremes
The fight for survival during famines is the topic, not the fight of heroes in battle
Republished: „Stories in Stone. Travels Through Urban Geology“ by David B. Williams
We publish the book’s Chapter 3 which is about Robinson Jeffers’ famous Tor House built of rocks at the coast in Carmel, California
Hard as a rock? Maybe not, say bacteria that help form soil
Scientists show how bacteria can degrade solid bedrock, jump-starting the process that creates the mineral portion of soil
The giant pumice raft in the Pacific originates from Volcano „F“ and is drifting towards Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
Underwater eruptions often create large amounts of the porous rock which then covers large areas on the ocean surface
The ground floor of the great Mayan Temples and Palaces were originally enshrouded in drapery
Professor Jan Pieper of the RWTH Aachen has developed a new theory on equidistant portholes in the Temples’ walls
