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Drugs hidden in blocks of marble from Mexico – Spanish police tracked down dealers
The gangsters had neatly milled cylinders out of the stone and then elaborately sealed them
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Earthquakes generate a small but immediate change in gravity which can be measured before the destructive waves arrive somewhere else
The case is difficult as the quake also changes the density of the rocks for a short time so that the gravity oscillates to some extent in sync with the shock
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
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