Stone Stories
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
When parts of today’s Sahara were underwater, giant fish and long-snouted crocodilians lived there
Fossil finds in Mali show „island gigantism“ and an era when sea level was 300 m higher than today
More than 100 new Nazca-geoglyphs depicting people and many different animals discovered in Peru
The land-lines dating from 100 BC to AD 300 were created by the Pre-Columbian culture in the mountainous area
Scientists find why eternal Nile has kept its path since humans remember
It is the Earth’s mantle movement that keeps the river on course / The river is 6 times older than previously thought
The fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago: mere concrete and thus of limited durability
In the closing months of 1989 just about all the citizens of the GDR gathered to march in protest and brought down the socialist regime
Tremendous fire at the Shuri Castle in Japan
The World Heritage site going back to the Ryuku kingdom has walls with stones composed in the Incan style known from ancient Latin America
In the past, pyrite (fool’s gold) may have triggered the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and climate change
Marum-scientist: During ice ages with lower sea-levels, the mineral was exposed to oxygen from the air which caused chemical weathering and CO2 release
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