Hey Bluesky, what are three of your favorite museums? Here's mine: 1. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (the reason I became a paleontologist) 2. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago (a reminder to appreciate modern fauna) 3. Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas (shaped like a big limestone outcrop)
Katy Trail day 5: Hermann to Augusta. Body is getting a little tired. But everything is so dang beautiful. 😍
Oh yeah. They're EVERYWHERE. Our whole state up until just shy of the northern border is limestone. The whole state is a sinkhole waiting to happen.
Travertine is a limestone. It is attractive, formed by minerals around hot springs. So although it is currently dingy dirty and scratched presumably when the house was built this was chosen as an attractive shiny entrance. I have understood that it is possible to restore this attractiveness…
This one's carved in limestone by Briony, who took part in one of my sculpture-in-a-day classes earlier this year. More at www.sculptedinstone.co.uk!
I picked up a nodular mass of blue limestone, and laid it open by a stroke of the hammer. Wonderful to relate, it contained inside a beautifully finished piece of sculpture… —Hugh Miller, THE OLD RED SANDSTONE (1841) available on Project Gutenberg 2/4 gutenberg.org/ebooks/63923
This week's new walking route is: Market Harborough - Naseby A 16.8 mile circular walk around and across the north Northamptonshire limestone plataeus where the decisive battle of the 17th Century Civil Wars took place on 14th June 1645 Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2024/10/10/m...
Circular walk from Market Harborough Railway Station across and around the upland limestone plateau in Northamptonshire where the Battle of Naseby occured in June 1645, ending Charles I's hopes of win...
Thankfully we are only getting some potential surge. But tornadoes are now a fear. I’ve already been afraid of tornados. They’re saying to go to the lowest floor in the homes but we don’t have basements bc of limestone. This is hard mode
in florida, the issue is that it sits on limestone and clay. limestone is very porous and hard to build into, while the clay expands and contracts with water, which can be damaging to any structure. weirdly enough, this also ties into florida's conservation efforts.