🌊The view from the best beach café in the world😍
Scenes from the edge of the world - The Lizard, Cornwall 2004-2025 a beautiful turquoise sea surrounded by Serpentine cliffs - this is the view from the excellent café at Kynance Cove, The Lizard, Cornwall. Taken on our most recent holiday break on The Lizard in May 2025.
Serpentinite (or Serpentine) is a metamorphic rock composed predominantly of serpentine group minerals formed by serpentinization of mafic or ultramafic rocks. The ancient origin of the name is uncertain; it may be from the similarity of its texture or color to snake skin. Greek pharmacologist Dioscorides (AD 50) recommended this rock to prevent snakebite.
Serpentinite is formed by near to complete serpentinization of mafic or ultramafic rocks that are hydrated by carbon dioxide-deficient sea water that is pressed into the rock at great depths below the ocean floor. This occurs at mid-ocean ridges and in the forearc mantle of subduction zones.
The final mineral composition of serpentinite is usually dominated by antigorite, lizardite, chrysotile (minerals of the serpentine subgroup), and magnetite (Fe3O4), with brucite (Mg(OH)2) less commonly present.
Most of the chemical reactions necessary to synthesize acetyl-CoA, essential to basic biochemical pathways of life, take place during serpentinization. Serpentinite thermal vents are therefore considered a candidate for the origin of life on Earth.
More info on Serpentine here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentinite
You can see a random selection of my photos here at Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/9815422@N06/random/
🌊The view from the best beach café in the world😍
Scenes from the edge of the world - The Lizard, Cornwall 2004-2025 a beautiful turquoise sea surrounded by Serpentine cliffs - this is the view from the excellent café at Kynance Cove, The Lizard, Cornwall. Taken on our most recent holiday break on The Lizard in May 2025.
Serpentinite (or Serpentine) is a metamorphic rock composed predominantly of serpentine group minerals formed by serpentinization of mafic or ultramafic rocks. The ancient origin of the name is uncertain; it may be from the similarity of its texture or color to snake skin. Greek pharmacologist Dioscorides (AD 50) recommended this rock to prevent snakebite.
Serpentinite is formed by near to complete serpentinization of mafic or ultramafic rocks that are hydrated by carbon dioxide-deficient sea water that is pressed into the rock at great depths below the ocean floor. This occurs at mid-ocean ridges and in the forearc mantle of subduction zones.
The final mineral composition of serpentinite is usually dominated by antigorite, lizardite, chrysotile (minerals of the serpentine subgroup), and magnetite (Fe3O4), with brucite (Mg(OH)2) less commonly present.
Most of the chemical reactions necessary to synthesize acetyl-CoA, essential to basic biochemical pathways of life, take place during serpentinization. Serpentinite thermal vents are therefore considered a candidate for the origin of life on Earth.
More info on Serpentine here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentinite
You can see a random selection of my photos here at Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/9815422@N06/random/