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Despite Covid-19: a (virtual) visit to Michelangelo’s David in Florence
On the webpage of the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, one can take a selfie with the sculpture in the background
Archive: all the stone news
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
Floors and stairs in a retirement home in Switzerland with Pietra Piasentina from natural stone company Bärlocher AG
The surfaces of the stone slabs are blasted and brushed in the inerior rooms and only blasted outside to ensure optimal slip resistance for the residents
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
Finally, a breakthrough in natural stone design also in the West, and it comes from the Aegean Association EIB, Turkey
The competition for students and professionals did not lead to exaggerated and fancy art objects, but rather to small objects you could imagine in your own daily life
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
Stone people: Insiders say of Joachim Grüter, who is stepping down after 20 years as DNV President: “He was a stroke of luck for the industry“
Hermann Graser was elected as his successor at the general meeting of the German Natural Stone Association
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
In the Fürst & Friedrich office and commercial building in Düsseldorf in Germany, the new building embraces the old one
The property has thus been given a “unique selling proposition”, with a façade designed with many details in natural stone
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
