Desert city in the woods
Our journey to the far east of Europe soon comes to an end. But first, a look at something completely different, in age and type of rock. Let’s leave the […]
Category Archives: Russia
On salt and old timber buildings
In the last post, we took a walk in a cave that water has carved out in the easily solvable mineral anhydrite, a calcium sulphate. Anhydrite is among the minerals […]
Boooo! Halloween in the Kungurian – literally
A few days ago, I took you to Perm to look at the Permian, and a crash-course in the mysterious ways of carbonate rock porosity. Today, we home into the […]
Perm and the Permian: Carbonate porosity for muggles
Some places have a special place in the hearts of geologists. Iceland with its volcanoes. The Dorset coast because it is the cradle of modern geology. The Oslo Graben because […]