Stone Stories
Sturgeon stones weighing tons create habitats for animals and plants in the riverbed of the Wupper in Germany
Elephant Tuffi, beaver Bonny and salmon Lucky made by sculptors are intended to slow down the flow of the watercourse and be points of attraction for people
Grains of garnet sand tell the story of traveling from the surface to about 75 miles in the Earth, then returning to the surface before ending up on a beach
Scientists read the rock cycle that happened in less than about 10 million years
The Bauhüttenwesen, which is the ancient craftspeople’s tradition of cooperation and know-how sharing in construction projects, is added to the Unesco List of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Still today, e.g., stonemasons working on the maintenance of cathedrals built supra-regional networks to preserve, transmit and develop techniques and knowledge
Drystone walls are Arabia’s megalithic monuments
The recently discovered monumental structures still hold many secrets in their construction, function, and chronology
Forensic geology: tracking victims through mineralogical characteristics of makeup ingredients
With a spectroradiometer, remains like talc, montmorillonite, and kaolinite could be identified at a crime scene
Over 100,000 years ago, fertile loess from the Negev helped the early humans on their way from Africa to Eurasia with the “land of milk and honey” in the Levant
Dr. Rivka Amit from the Geological Survey of Israel found that dust deposition by desert winds played a critical role in forming thick or thin soils around the Eastern Mediterranean
The peaks of the so-called stone forests were formed by natural dissolution of the rocks in the water and related currents
Scientists from New York University simulated the chemical and mechanical processes
New understanding for the vast stone monuments constructed in Saudi Arabia 7,000 years ago
The enigmatic “mustatils” may have been “ritual sites where groups of people met to perform some kind of currently unknown social activities”
Laser melting of moon dust and building the “Moon Village” by 3D printing
Researchers from Hanover, Germany have proven that an earthly imitation of Regolith can be liquefied by laser / Tests on the moon with real material planned for 2021
Above the US, this year’s Perseid meteor shower will have its peak in the night from August 11 to 12, in the pre-morning hours
It is caused by the tail of the comet Swift-Tuttle, through which our planet flies every year and whose particles burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere
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