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Classic view of the Wallstreet section of the Zion Narrows. The spring-fed North Fork of the Virgin River cascades its way through the slot canyon, with towering sandstone walls on either side. The 'weeping' effect is prominently seen on the walls of the canyon here, at places where water permeating through the porous rock is slowly expelled. Such locations create green lushness on the canyon walls (more so in other spots, because here flash floods wash away any soil and new trees). I had to patiently wait for the steady stream of hikers through the canyon to disappear for just a second before getting this shot. Afternoon seems to be the time to be here, when the sun overhead creates the wonderful glowing phenomena on the canyon walls.
The streets of the old city are paved with Limestone, a local stone that is porous. The shine you see is from the centuries of use, worn down by the feet, carriages and tyres.
I took this photo on our first trip to Iceland this summer. It was one of our last days that my boyfriend and I spent on this stunning island. We saw many impressive spots, visited countless glaciers, lava fields and waterfalls. This picture here shows a part of the so called Hraunfossar. For me it was one of the most beautiful waterfalls in this impressive country. On the one hand, because the water makes its way directly out of the porous, dark, almost black lava rock, and on the other hand, because it then cascades down in hundreds of small waterfalls into the foaming, turquoise river. I was so impressed that we even stayed a few hours at this place to enjoy this natural spectacle and capture it with our camera. Already at this point we knew that we would come back sometime.
Blank book. 5x7. Black string embossed handmade paper cover, Yupo, metal fixings, chain. Pages are porous textured handmade paper, suitable for dry media, stitching or collage. Longstitched.
Cortivermis Syndrome is a degenerative infection caused by the symbiotic parasite Cortivermis sanguinea, a filamentous organism that infiltrates neural and dermal tissues. Its name comes from Latin: cortex (brain) and vermis (worm). The pathogen’s life cycle centers around the cerebral cortex, where it intertwines with neural pathways, feeding on bioelectrical activity. Initial infection typically occurs through contact with contaminated organic material or aerosolized spores. Once inside the host, microscopic larvae migrate through the bloodstream and lodge in the capillary networks of the face and brain. Within 72 hours, the organism begins constructing a porous, coral-like bio-matrix across soft tissues — a structure that provides oxygen diffusion and electrical conductivity. This growth manifests externally as reddish lattice lesions, usually on one side of the face. By day 10, the infection reaches the frontal and temporal lobes. The parasite establishes a neural interface, effectively hijacking sensory inputs and emotional regulation. Victims report auditory distortions, metallic taste sensations, and heightened aggression. Advanced stages result in partial ossification of the parasite’s network — the “cortical shell” — where nerve signals are rerouted through foreign tissue, giving the illusion of dual consciousness. First recorded in 2143 CE after an outbreak in the Novaya Murmansk Research Zone, where a mycelial biofuel experiment went rogue. Over 300 researchers were quarantined; only 17 survived.
Image originally generated with DALL-E, then enhanced through upscaling in Leonardo AI and finally refined with Topaz Gigapixel AI.
This is the mountain that sits behind a lake I visit in Phang Nga, Thailand. It looks like a gigantic limestone karst and evidence of its porous and weathered nature can be seen in the numerous rockfalls that have taken place over the years.
Hraunfossar (Borgarfjörður, western Iceland) is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. The Hraunfossar are situated near Húsafell and Reykholt and lava-tube cave Víðgelmir is close by.
This is a photograph of the porous "hook and loop" (aka, "velcro") surface of a specialist sanding disk used by some woodworkers to maximise dust extraction. It's porous structure allowed me to filter the smoke from an an incense stick which was placed underneath it.
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Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongdaemun_Design_Plaza:
Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) is a major urban development landmark in Seoul, South Korea, designed by Zaha Hadid and Samoo, with a distinctively neo-futuristic design characterized by the "powerful, curving forms of elongated structures." The landmark is the centerpiece of South Korea's fashion hub and popular tourist destination, Dongdaemun, featuring a walkable park on its roofs, large global exhibition spaces, futuristic retail stores, and restored parts of the Seoul fortress.
The DDP has been one of the main reasons for Seoul's designation as the World Design Capital in 2010. Construction started in 2009, and it was officially inaugurated on March 21, 2014. It is physically connected to Seoul Subway via Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station on Line 2, 4, and 5.
The Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) was designed by British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, winner of the 2004 Pritzker Prize, with the concept of "Metonymic Landscape". Metonymy refers to a method of describing a specific object indirectly, and Hadid integrated historical, cultural, urban, social, and economic aspects of Seoul deduced from this method in order to create a scene of the landscape. Designed as a cultural hub in the historical district of Seoul, South Korea's largest fashion district, the DDP is composed of undulating surfaces that resemble the flow of liquid and allow flexibility in space. The state-of-the-art BIM (Building Information Modeling), mega-truss (extra-large roof truss) system, and space frame system are the key features in terms of creating grand-scale spaces. According to Hadid, the fundamental features of her design were "transparency, porousness, and durability." Many ecological features, including a double-skin facade, solar panels, and a water recycling system, are included in the building.
The construction project for replacing Dongdaemun Stadium with a public park has been discussed in the media since 2000, and the city of Seoul established a basic master plan for alternating the function of Dongdaemun Stadium in 2005. Upon the advice of architects, and in order to secure a high-quality design for the new landmark of Seoul, the city invited architects in February 2007 to participate in a design competition. The city requested that the architects include a design plaza, underground spaces, a history park, and a culture park in the project, according to the guidelines. Zaha Hadid's Metonymic Landscape won the competition.
The exterior envelope of the DDP, a smooth and giant mushroom-like structure floating above ground level, is made of concrete, aluminum, steel, and stone. The interior of the building is finished with plaster reinforced with synthetic fiber, acoustic tiles, acrylic resin, stainless steel, and polished stone in the interior.
A massive, porous rock has been lashed by waves for millennia, forming three natural arches. Through them you can see the wild ocean crashing in.
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To recline is to listen inward—an invitation to ease the breath, soften the shoulders, and rest in a moment that asks nothing of us but presence. In the clamor of modern life, where movement is often mistaken for meaning, stillness offers a quiet rebellion.
It’s not laziness or retreat, but a profound form of trust: that we are enough without the constant proving. I think of golden light pooling on a carpet, a cat stretching unapologetically across a windowsill, or the way dusk pours itself gently into a room. Stillness, in these moments, is not absence—it’s grace.
To truly recline is to allow the world to come to us, rather than chase after it. The fire warms not because we tend to it, but because we draw near. In this softened state, we absorb more—beauty, clarity, comfort. We become porous to goodness.
Rest is no longer a reward for exhaustion; it’s a recognition of worth. There’s something sacred in that surrender, where movement gives way to meaning felt rather than forged. And in that space, reclined and receptive, we remember a truth too often forgotten: that stillness doesn’t diminish us—it completes us.
This plant blooms easily and needs lots of light. Use pot with good drainage and a very porous mineral-based potting mix. Pot plants are quite wet-sensitively, especially in light of its small root system. Water sparingly during the growing season, let soil dry in between to prevent root rot, keep very dry in winter. Feed with a high potassium fertilizer in summer.
Usually it is recommended to overwinter this plant in a bright and warm greenhouse with at least 8-10° C , but it proved to be quite frost resistant (if kept dry it hardy as low as -7° C) A resting period in winter and strong light are necessary so that it can flower properly. Plants will offset readily, and dense clumps can be produced in a very few years.
There are containers similar to this one dotted all over the country and this is where all your used Thoughts and forgotten Memories go when they leave your consciousness. They peel away from you and quickly find their way to one of these repositories, where they wait a while just-in-case you might need them again soon.
After a suitable amount of time, all of the Memories are separated out, labelled and sent to a nearby underground storage bunker, while the Thoughts are piped to smaller, porous containers where they are allowed to dissipate naturally into the aether. When appropriate, the stored Memories of the recently deceased are processed and released to join the Thoughts in said fifth element.
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Usual caveats etc.
Burney Falls
McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park, CA
The paradise known as Burney Falls includes two main cataracts that thunderously pour over a cliff, and springs that ooze out porous canyon walls. Shown here is the right side of the falls, the left side is like a mirror image of the right. The water comes from underground springs at and above the falls, and provides a nearly constant flow rate of 195 cu ft/sec. The falls are 114 ft high and 250 ft wide. Impressed by their beauty, former US President Theodore Roosevelt called them “the Eighth Wonder of the World.”
Creeping water rails, singing warblers and shimmering brown trout can be found along this stretch of England's chalk-stream, Marshcourt River. England is home to more than 85% of the world’s chalk streams, with Hampshire offering some of the finest examples. The geological landscape here is dominated by chalk, a porous rock that slowly filters groundwater before storing it in reservoirs beneath the surface.
The water is then released through springs to form rivers such as the Test, Itchen and Meon, each flowing with extraordinary clarity and purity. From the main courses are numerous sidestreams and tributaries. Some remain winterbournes, rising only when the water table swells, whereas one or two are noted for their own individual beauty. One such stream slips almost unnoticed below the cottage gardens of Stockbridge, before finding space for itself on the wide meadow and marsh to the south of the town. There, for a short distance, the Marshcourt River widens and forges its own identity, running parallel with the Test before the two eventually merge.
The Marshcourt flows along the western edge of Stockbridge Common Marsh, where access is granted to the public by the National Trust. A gentle stroll offers plenty of views of this classic chalk-stream habitat and the wildlife that thrives here. Sedge, reed and Cetti’s warblers may be seen and heard, while water rails and water voles creep deep in the reedbeds and river margins.
Within the river, swathes of water crowfoot swing with the current, while in the sky above, swallows and hobbies gorge on the clouds of hatching insects. The fish also enjoy the feast, with brown trout and grayling crashing with abandon.
The area is renowned throughout the world for its dry-fly fishing and the influence is often evident. In Stockbridge, tackle shops and outfitters such as Orvis UK nestle between the cafés and pubs, and people gather beside the white-fenced barriers to feed bread to the trout, rather than the ducks.
The spire in the distance belongs to St. Peters Parish Church which is a light Victorian Gothic building commanding a central position in Stockbridge High Street. The Church has been considerably enhanced in the past ten years, with a new inner roof and a complete rebuild of the Bishop Organ. There is a well defined coffee area, a children's corner and a second handbook corner with books on all subjects sold in aid of charity.
www.countryfile.com/go-outdoors/walks/day-out-marshcourt-...
Jejudo is a volcanic island, so its beaches are composed of cooled lava. Lava cools down and becomes black, porous like a sponge and sharp. Walking around such a place is unrealistic, but it looks very unusual, like another planet.
One Kleomenous on the Lycabettus hill of is the first building in the portfolio of Omniview by the architect Dimitrios Tsigos. It is a revolutionary new concept of a living space created to showcase his team’s development capabilities, based on cutting edge design and construction techniques and technologies and it carries the strength, beauty and functionality of high quality.
The choice of Travertino marble was in fact very rational is in hamony with the colour characteristic beige stones which are the main building block for all of lycabettus’s retaining walls. From the beginning of the project, the intensity of the building’s visual relatioship with the Acropolis had marbles on moodboard. Marble is a stone in its self, just one that allows more flexibility in its manipulation. Travertino was a perfect match in colour, but also a material that communicates very intensly its non artificial status due to its porous nature. Moreover, it is a very popular material in the sourrounding areas 70’s modernist style condo developments; in fact its also used inour adjuscent building, the one that tie us to the urban tissue.
2021-05-31, Day 2 hiking
The light of late morning spills over the sandstone walls to wash down and mingle with the gathering waters of the Paria River, Paria Wilderness, Arizona. When the creative mood strikes, the waters swell, churning with muck, stones, branches, and all manner of detritus, rising up to chisel and sculpt more canyon from slabs of a near un-ending quarry.
As is evident in this photograph, the Ranger's warning that the Paria was completely dry all the way to Lee's Ferry was patently false, and in hindsight, I have never received such inaccurate information from a ranger. To our delight, the channel even appeared to be gathering strength the further we walked downstream. Although the water was not as deep as the first time we walked the canyon four years ago, its presence made the canyon come alive.
The Ranger also warned us that the campsite we stayed in the previous night would smell of human sewage due to too many people concentrating in the most spectacular upper-reaches of the canyon system. It was true that when the breeze funneled down the cliffs in the evening we did catch a whiff of urine. A cursory investigation revealed that prior camp inhabitants had been too lazy to walk more than 10 feet from the sleeping area to piss. It turns out that when the monsoon fails and you're 30 feet above the channel on a vegetated sandbar, there isn't any way for all that ammonia to quickly dissipate from an extremely porous soil. While not exactly marvelous, it was a relief that it did not in fact smell like what I think of when a person uses the word "sewage."
All things considered, the camp was delightful and I was as enamored of its cathedral like walls as much as I was four years ago. We discovered that there was also a healthy kangaroo rat population, though they weren't so foolish so as to allow themselves to be observed directly. Instead, we found in the morning that every square inch of the entire sandy camp area that we had thoroughly trampled the evening before was covered with thousands of little, tiny rodent prints. The prints were on top of the cooking pots, all round the water bottles, and all around the tarps where we had slept. They didn't find the food, because we had stored it properly, but they left no stone unturned, and their myriad prints suggest it is they who run the place.
Lava and water – that is what Iceland is made of. And when you put those two things together something quite incredible happens!
Hraunfossar, roughly translated as lava falls, was formed when a volcano erupted under a glacier creating a porous lava field through which the cold subterranean water gushes, seeps and cascades into a pristine river.
Read the story behind the image on the blog:
annemckinnell.com/2016/02/04/iceland-hraunfossar-lava-falls/
Hraunfossar est une cascade de la rivière Hvítá dans l'ouest de l'Islande et dans les environs de Húsafell et Reykholt.
Le nom Hraunfossar (les chutes de la lave) recouvre en fait une suite de petites cascades s'étalant sur environ un kilomètre. L'eau ruisselle sous un champ de lave (le Hallmundarhaun) pour se jeter dans la rivière Hvítá. Le Hallmundarhraun eut son origine dans l'éruption d'un des volcans situés sous le glacier Langjökull. D'où le nom, « hraun » en islandais est un « champ de lave ».
Juste à côté, on trouve une autre cascade du nom de Barnafoss (« la cascade des enfants », en référence à une histoire locale).
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hraunfossar
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Hraunfossar (Borgarfjörður, western Iceland) is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 meters out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. The Hraunfossar are situated near Húsafell and Reykholt and lava-tube cave Víðgelmir is close by.
Literally a stone's throw upstream from Hraunfossar, there is another waterfall called Barnafoss. Its name, the waterfall of the children, comes from an accident which is said to have taken place here in former times. There was a natural bridge over the waterfall and two children from a nearby farm fell to their deaths crossing the river on the bridge. Afterwards, the grief-struck mother had the bridge destroyed.
# 184~365 Work with textures
White Flowers
By Mary Oliver
Last night
in the fields
I lay down in the darkness
to think about death,
but instead I fell asleep,
as if in a vast and sloping room
filled with those white flowers
that open all summer,
sticky and untidy,
in the warm fields.
When I woke
the morning light was just slipping
in front of the stars,
and I was covered
with blossoms.
I don’t know
how it happened—
I don’t know
if my body went diving down
under the sugary vines
in some sleep-sharpened affinity
with the depths, or whether
that green energy
rose like a wave
and curled over me, claiming me
in its husky arms.
I pushed them away, but I didn’t rise.
Never in my life had I felt so plush,
or so slippery,
or so resplendently empty.
Never in my life
had I felt myself so near
that porous line
where my own body was done with
and the roots and the stems and the flowers
began.
~~♥~~
I took the original photo @ American Orchid Society
Deerfield Beach, Florida, USA
July 18th/2009
Nikon D5000
I used this wonderful texture by : Lenoirrr...orjustMarion Thank you so very much !
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The dice (total weight 32 carats) and solitaire (just under 4 carats) not only look fantastic but roll very well! The dice are an exclusive design by Coster of Amsterdam.
The black diamond, also known as Carbonado, is a natural polycrystalline diamond found in alluvial deposits in the Central African Republic and Brazil, they look black and are highly porous. A study by Stephen Haggerty and Jozsef Garai, both of Florida International University, analyzed the hydrogen in black diamond samples using infrared-detection instruments at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and found that the mineral formed in a supernova explosion.
How fun it must be to play a game with the remnants of a supernova explosion!!!
This tiny alcove is only about 3 feet across, but it shows some of the processes that build alcoves of all sizes: water flowing through porous sandstone, dissolving calcium carbonate, creating larger spaces. You can see several crevices that are boundaries between layers, and these crevices become tiny seeps that produce columns, bridges and portals.
When seeping water hits the air, some evaporates, depositing salts that create delicate hues in the rock.
Labyrinth Canyon Wilderness, Utah
Taken in Daintree river in Far North Queensland. A young saltwater crocodile (“Crocodylus porous”) in the wild, sunning itself on a log in the Daintree rainforest in Far North Queensland. This one was about 15 inches long and still very vulnerable to other predators.
Not sure if its male or female. The males can grow to 8-10 metres and the females 2.5 - 3m. The sex of the baby croc is determined by water temperature.
The saltwater crocodile is the largest living reptile species of all.. They live for 70-100 years!
Київський завод Стройдеталь (?) тресту (рос. Южэнергострой) Південенергобуд (ЗМІ завод металевих виробів), заснований у 1955 році.
The relief texture of “waffle” (or waffle weave) is widely used in design where a porous, relief surface is required. Due to its recognizable relief structure, it adds visual interest and tactility to the viruses.
"A walk through the manholes" - a topic that at first seemed simple and mundane to me, became interesting and even poetic, because reading the inscriptions on the manhole covers and searching for information about the manufacturers and owners of the manholes reveals a part of the city's history that can only be restored from the logos and markings of these witnesses to the history of the city's development. Many thanks to everyone who became interested in these "bitcoins" much earlier and left interesting information about their observations about them on the Internet.
«Прогулянка по люкам» -тема, яка спочатку здавалася мені простою та буденною, стала цікавою та навіть поетичною, оскільки прочитання написів на кришках люків та пошук інформації про виробників і власників люків розкриває частину міської історії, яку можна відновити лише з логотипів та маркування цих свідків історії розвитку міста. Велика подяка всім, хто набагато раніше зацікавився цими «біткоінами» і залишив цікаву інформацію своїх спостережень про них в Інтернеті.
Nikon D40, Nikon 105mm f/2.5 lens focused at infinity, with a Raynox DCR-150 close up lens on the 105mm, pop up flash shot through a diffuser made from a white plastic dish that came in a Marie Callendar frozen dinner.
Taken back in February 2013, here's a black widow in her terrarium after working overnight to produce an egg case. "Elvira" (a dumb but appropriate name) was a spider I found in my house I'm renovating in Texas. She rode home in a pill bottle, getting through airport security just fine. She was released into a terrarium in my computer room and over several months produced three egg cases. She had been bred the previous fall, was in bad shape, but recovered enough to produce eggs that resulted in a plentiful supply of hatchlings for photographing over a number of months.
Here's her story:
www.flickr.com/photos/61377404@N08/8521124079/in/album-72...
Her first egg case wasn't her best. She first made a spherical construction comprised of loosely matted silk... a porous affair much like a basket... loose enough to barely see through. She then "injected" her eggs, which took several hours, then spent the rest of the night covering the lighter coating of silk with a thick layer of more protective silk. Shown here, she's with her third and most successful egg case.
Here's a short video of her applying an outer covering to an earlier egg case where the egg "injection " process went a bit haywire as a number of eggs escaped the confines of the case. They were later wrapped properly and hatched along with all the others:
www.flickr.com/photos/61377404@N08/16282299273/in/album-7...
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The Uyuni salt lake is the biggest salt crust around the world. Its length is approximately 10,000 km2. This salt crust is formed of porous halite, filled of a interstitial brine rich in lithium, potassium, magnesium and boron.
Perforations made in the Uyuni salt lake show that it’s formed by interstitial layers of porous halite filled of a brine rich in lithium, potassium, boron and magnesium. The deepest perforation made until now in the Uyuni salt lake has 220.6 meters. It’s still unknown the total depth of the salt lake.
During the summer months the salt flat fills with water as a result of rainfall.
Source: Balderrama F, UTO
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongdaemun_Design_Plaza:
Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) is a major urban development landmark in Seoul, South Korea, designed by Zaha Hadid and Samoo, with a distinctively neo-futuristic design characterized by the "powerful, curving forms of elongated structures." The landmark is the centerpiece of South Korea's fashion hub and popular tourist destination, Dongdaemun, featuring a walkable park on its roofs, large global exhibition spaces, futuristic retail stores, and restored parts of the Seoul fortress.
The DDP has been one of the main reasons for Seoul's designation as the World Design Capital in 2010. Construction started in 2009, and it was officially inaugurated on March 21, 2014. It is physically connected to Seoul Subway via Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station on Line 2, 4, and 5.
The Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) was designed by British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, winner of the 2004 Pritzker Prize, with the concept of "Metonymic Landscape". Metonymy refers to a method of describing a specific object indirectly, and Hadid integrated historical, cultural, urban, social, and economic aspects of Seoul deduced from this method in order to create a scene of the landscape. Designed as a cultural hub in the historical district of Seoul, South Korea's largest fashion district, the DDP is composed of undulating surfaces that resemble the flow of liquid and allow flexibility in space. The state-of-the-art BIM (Building Information Modeling), mega-truss (extra-large roof truss) system, and space frame system are the key features in terms of creating grand-scale spaces. According to Hadid, the fundamental features of her design were "transparency, porousness, and durability." Many ecological features, including a double-skin facade, solar panels, and a water recycling system, are included in the building.
The construction project for replacing Dongdaemun Stadium with a public park has been discussed in the media since 2000, and the city of Seoul established a basic master plan for alternating the function of Dongdaemun Stadium in 2005. Upon the advice of architects, and in order to secure a high-quality design for the new landmark of Seoul, the city invited architects in February 2007 to participate in a design competition. The city requested that the architects include a design plaza, underground spaces, a history park, and a culture park in the project, according to the guidelines. Zaha Hadid's Metonymic Landscape won the competition.
The exterior envelope of the DDP, a smooth and giant mushroom-like structure floating above ground level, is made of concrete, aluminum, steel, and stone. The interior of the building is finished with plaster reinforced with synthetic fiber, acoustic tiles, acrylic resin, stainless steel, and polished stone in the interior.
A iron grate sits over the top of a mine shaft in the McKittrick Oil Field on the western side of the San Joaquin Valley in California. This mine, in an area known as The McKittrick Tar Pits, produced solid hydrocarbons like asphalt and tar west of the town of McKittrick in Kern County. In some areas, one of the first clues that oil is present in the subsurface is the fact that it sometimes finds its way to the surface through faulting or porous rock. Places where oil, asphalt or tar naturally comes to the surface are called an oil / tar seep or brea. Sands that are saturated with heavy asphalt or tar are called tar sands. The tar pits here lie on the western flank of the Temblor Range where alluvium covers Holocene alluvial gravels, fluvial sandstone, and lacustrine shales. These in turn overlie the kerogen-rich Miocene Monterey Formation. Most of the kerogen represent the preserved bodies of microscopic organism such as diatoms that live in the upper few meters of the ocean. The Monterey has many diatom rich beds called diatomaceous shales. Heat and time changed the soft body parts into liquid hydrocarbon and associated gas. About the same time, movement of the San Andres and associated faults help form the Temblor Range. Faulting and cracking of the rocks formed pathways for the oil to migrate up out of the Monterey, Some of the oil became trapped beneath an impermeable cap of Monterey Formation that slid of the Mountains. Most of the tar seeps occur in place where erosion has removed the Monterey cap (deposited by the landslide) and allowed the porous sandstone beds to be exposed and leak the oil.
In the early 1860's the Buena Vista Petroleum Company began digging the tar at the seeps. In this case, a worker would be lowered down into the mine, then would fill buckets with the asphalt, while someone at the surface would pull it up. It was incredibly dirty and hot, As a result many miners chose to work naked and to be washed at the end of the day. The Job had it dangers too, The workers not only had to contend with the tar in the pits, but also the hot weather of the San Joaquin Valley and noxious fumes from the oil, tar and gas. In the end, the mines were not very economical. The first oil well, The Standard Oil #1, was drilled in 1899. The well discovered oil and McKittrick Field was born.
As I stood next to the shaft I could smell the faint odor of rotten eggs which is a sure sign that natural gas containing a little hydrdogen sulfide was being emmited from the well. At times, bubbling and gurgling could be heard down in the shaft.
Meandering in the shallows at low tide, this brown bear smells something below the surface of the silty sand. The presence of clams is also betrayed by porous openings in the sand’s surface. She stops to dig. Equipped with one of the best sand shovels created, she can dig rapidly availing herself to the rewards of savory shellfish.
Hraunfossar (Borgarfjörður, western Iceland) is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. The Hraunfossar are situated near Húsafell and Reykholt and lava-tube cave Víðgelmir is close by.
This is a shot of a Tufa Formation at Pyramid Lake. When I took this shot I was really shooting the sky, it was what I think of as a typical Nevada sky. These fluffy huge dramatic clouds, with a somewhat ominous feeling to them, seeming to hover over towering mountain peeks. in the spring and Summer. While they sky was awesome I needed something to add scale and draw your eyes to the clouds and that is when I found this rock formation.
" tu·faˈ
t(y)o͞ofə"
a porous rock composed of calcium carbonate and formed by precipitation from water, e.g., around mineral springs.
Check out some of my other shots of what I like to call Nevada's hidden Jewel
NEPAL, In Pokhara, Patale Chhango (Devi Falls) vor dem Verschwinden des Wassers
The porous underground of the Pokhara valley favours the formation of caves and several caves can be found within city limits. In the south of the city, a tributary of the Seti flowing out of the Phewa Lake disappears at Patale Chhango (पाताले छाँगो, Nepali for Hell's Falls, also called Davis Falls, after someone who supposedly fell in) into an underground gorge, to reappear 500 metres (1,600 feet) further south.
Jeju Island, South Korea, is a volcanic island. There is no volcanic activity at all, since it is dead volcano. The island is filled with porous volcanic rock, and structures made of the rock. It is a fantastic place to visit. Great local food and nature.
Mátala ist ein Dorf an der Südküste der griechischen Insel Kreta. Nach dem griechischen Mythos war Matala der Ort, an dem Zeus in Stiergestalt mit der von ihm entführten phönizischen Prinzessin Europa an Land ging. Er verwandelte sich hier in einen Adler und brachte Europa weiter nach Gortyn.
Matala zählte 2011 67 Einwohner und ist heute eine Siedlung in der Ortschaft Pitsidia im Gemeindebezirk Tymbaki der Gemeinde Festos.
In der Jungsteinzeit wurden in das weiche, poröse Gestein der Bucht zahlreiche Wohnhöhlen gegraben, die in der Zeit der römischen Besetzung Kretas als Grabstätten genutzt wurden. Bis heute sind sie die berühmteste Attraktion von Matala geblieben. In der minoischen Epoche befand sich an dieser Stelle vermutlich der Hafen von Phaistos; in römischer Zeit war Matala der Hafen von Gortyn. Die Sarazenen unter Abu Hafs Omar, die 824 Kreta eroberten, gingen zuerst in Matala an Land.
In den 1960er Jahren siedelten sich in den neolithischen Wohnhöhlen Hippies aus aller Welt an (darunter viele junge US-Bürger, die ihre Teilnahme am Vietnamkrieg verweigerten), und gründeten dort eine große Kommune.
Mátala is a village on the south coast of the Greek island of Crete. According to Greek mythology, Matala was the place where Zeus in the shape of a bull went ashore with the Phoenician princess Europa, who he kidnapped. Here he transformed himself into an eagle and brought Europa further to Gortyn.
Matala had 67 inhabitants in 2011 and is now a settlement in the village of Pitsidia in the Tymbaki district of the municipality of Festos.
In the Neolithic Age, numerous residential caves were dug into the soft, porous rock of the bay, which were used as burial sites during the Roman occupation of Crete. Until today they have remained the most famous attraction of Matala. In the Minoan era, the port of Phaistos was probably located on this site; in Roman times Matala was the port of Gortyn. The Saracens under Abu Hafs Omar, who conquered Crete in 824, first landed in Matala.
In the 1960s, hippies from all over the world (including many young US citizens who refused to participate in the Vietnam War) settled in the Neolithic caves and founded a large commune there.
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Goreme, Cappadocia, Turkey.
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As explained to me, a Cappadocian Hoodoo column consists of volcanic strata from several local volcanos laid down some millions of years ago. Not all the strata are the same material. The lower portion of the column is compressed mineral ash which erodes easily in wind and especially water. The top dark portion is a much harder basaltic material which erodes quite slowly. As the landscape erodes during rainstorms and windstorms, the lower strata preferentially erodes with the basaltic cap providing a protective umbrella effect, leaving the column as you see here.
The compressive force of the heavy cap also makes the column of porous ash below denser and more resistant to erosion.
Hraunfossar waterfall, Iceland
The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava.
Esiste codesto Aleph all'interno di una pietra?
L'ho visto quando vidi tutte le cose, e l'ho dimenticato?
La nostra mente è porosa per l'oblio; io stesso sto deformando e perdendo, sotto la tragica erosione degli anni, i tratti di Beatriz ...
- J. L. Borges - L'Aleph -
There is this Aleph, within a stone?
I saw it when I saw all things, and I have forgotten?
Our minds are porous to oblivion, I myself am distorting and losing in the tragic erosion of the years, the face of Beatriz ...
It has been so cold recently around Faversham that strange ice formations have been growing from the ground. In Badgins Wood, Plumford near Painters Forstal these fabulous "Ice Mushrooms" have formed. Porous pebbles such as these surface chalk fragments initially become covered in a crust of ice due to the moisture they contain. As the freezing process continues this "Pebble Ice" starts to form ice needles which grow vertically and over time a dome forms to produce the unique mushroom shape. These where popping up all along the path edges in Badgins Wood....
the sun was high, its light falling in hard, diagonal stripes across the ancient sandstone wall. the stone was the color of ochre, warm and porous. she walked along it, a figure in cream and bone, her heels clicking on the pavement. in her hand, she carried a bag, a perfect, brilliant rectangle of red. it was a single, defiant accent of color in the sun-bleached world. a punctuation mark at the end of an unspoken sentence. a fleeting signal, moving through the afternoon heat.
Hraunfossar Waterfall, Iceland.
Hraunfossar is one of the most interesting and unique waterfalls in Iceland. It is formed by rivulets streaming out of nearby lava field and pouring from porous lava ledges at different elevations on its ace. It is spread over almost 1 km of length and it offers many opportunities for intimate landscapes.
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongdaemun_Design_Plaza:
Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) is a major urban development landmark in Seoul, South Korea, designed by Zaha Hadid and Samoo, with a distinctively neo-futuristic design characterized by the "powerful, curving forms of elongated structures." The landmark is the centerpiece of South Korea's fashion hub and popular tourist destination, Dongdaemun, featuring a walkable park on its roofs, large global exhibition spaces, futuristic retail stores, and restored parts of the Seoul fortress.
The DDP has been one of the main reasons for Seoul's designation as the World Design Capital in 2010. Construction started in 2009, and it was officially inaugurated on March 21, 2014. It is physically connected to Seoul Subway via Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station on Line 2, 4, and 5.
The Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) was designed by British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, winner of the 2004 Pritzker Prize, with the concept of "Metonymic Landscape". Metonymy refers to a method of describing a specific object indirectly, and Hadid integrated historical, cultural, urban, social, and economic aspects of Seoul deduced from this method in order to create a scene of the landscape. Designed as a cultural hub in the historical district of Seoul, South Korea's largest fashion district, the DDP is composed of undulating surfaces that resemble the flow of liquid and allow flexibility in space. The state-of-the-art BIM (Building Information Modeling), mega-truss (extra-large roof truss) system, and space frame system are the key features in terms of creating grand-scale spaces. According to Hadid, the fundamental features of her design were "transparency, porousness, and durability." Many ecological features, including a double-skin facade, solar panels, and a water recycling system, are included in the building.
The construction project for replacing Dongdaemun Stadium with a public park has been discussed in the media since 2000, and the city of Seoul established a basic master plan for alternating the function of Dongdaemun Stadium in 2005. Upon the advice of architects, and in order to secure a high-quality design for the new landmark of Seoul, the city invited architects in February 2007 to participate in a design competition. The city requested that the architects include a design plaza, underground spaces, a history park, and a culture park in the project, according to the guidelines. Zaha Hadid's Metonymic Landscape won the competition.
The exterior envelope of the DDP, a smooth and giant mushroom-like structure floating above ground level, is made of concrete, aluminum, steel, and stone. The interior of the building is finished with plaster reinforced with synthetic fiber, acoustic tiles, acrylic resin, stainless steel, and polished stone in the interior.
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongdaemun_Design_Plaza:
Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) is a major urban development landmark in Seoul, South Korea, designed by Zaha Hadid and Samoo, with a distinctively neo-futuristic design characterized by the "powerful, curving forms of elongated structures." The landmark is the centerpiece of South Korea's fashion hub and popular tourist destination, Dongdaemun, featuring a walkable park on its roofs, large global exhibition spaces, futuristic retail stores, and restored parts of the Seoul fortress.
The DDP has been one of the main reasons for Seoul's designation as the World Design Capital in 2010. Construction started in 2009, and it was officially inaugurated on March 21, 2014. It is physically connected to Seoul Subway via Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station on Line 2, 4, and 5.
The Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) was designed by British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, winner of the 2004 Pritzker Prize, with the concept of "Metonymic Landscape". Metonymy refers to a method of describing a specific object indirectly, and Hadid integrated historical, cultural, urban, social, and economic aspects of Seoul deduced from this method in order to create a scene of the landscape. Designed as a cultural hub in the historical district of Seoul, South Korea's largest fashion district, the DDP is composed of undulating surfaces that resemble the flow of liquid and allow flexibility in space. The state-of-the-art BIM (Building Information Modeling), mega-truss (extra-large roof truss) system, and space frame system are the key features in terms of creating grand-scale spaces. According to Hadid, the fundamental features of her design were "transparency, porousness, and durability." Many ecological features, including a double-skin facade, solar panels, and a water recycling system, are included in the building.
The construction project for replacing Dongdaemun Stadium with a public park has been discussed in the media since 2000, and the city of Seoul established a basic master plan for alternating the function of Dongdaemun Stadium in 2005. Upon the advice of architects, and in order to secure a high-quality design for the new landmark of Seoul, the city invited architects in February 2007 to participate in a design competition. The city requested that the architects include a design plaza, underground spaces, a history park, and a culture park in the project, according to the guidelines. Zaha Hadid's Metonymic Landscape won the competition.
The exterior envelope of the DDP, a smooth and giant mushroom-like structure floating above ground level, is made of concrete, aluminum, steel, and stone. The interior of the building is finished with plaster reinforced with synthetic fiber, acoustic tiles, acrylic resin, stainless steel, and polished stone in the interior.
Calcareous sinter is a freshwater calcium carbonate deposit, also known as calc-sinter. Deposits are characterised by low porosity and well-developed lamination, often forming crusts or sedimentary rock layers. Calcareous sinter should not be confused with siliceous sinter, which the term sinter more frequently refers to. It has been suggested that the term "sinter" should be restricted to siliceous spring deposits and be dropped for calcareous deposits entirely.
Calcareous sinter is characterised by laminations of prismatic crystals growing perpendicular to the substrate; laminations are separated by thin layers of microcrystalline carbonate. Calcareous sinter is porous due to the calcareous crystals enclosing many small cavities.Macrophytes are, consequently porosity is very low. Exclusion of species is due either to high temperature (travertine), high pH/ionic strength (tufa) or absence of light (speleothems).
A graduation tower (occasionally referred to as a thorn house) is a structure used in the production of salt which removes water from a saline solution by evaporation, increasing its concentration of mineral salts. The tower consists of a wooden wall-like frame stuffed with bundles of brushwood (typically blackthorn) which have to be changed about every 5 to 10 years as they become encrusted with mineral deposits over time. The salt water runs down the tower and partly evaporates; at the same time some minerals from the solution are left behind on the brushwood twigs.
Graduation towers can be found in a number of spa towns, primarily in Germany but also Poland and Austria. The mineral-rich water droplets in the air are regarded as having beneficial health effects similar to that of breathing in sea air.
Calcareous sinter is a freshwater calcium carbonate deposit, also known as calc-sinter. Deposits are characterised by low porosity and well-developed lamination. Calcareous sinter should not be confused with siliceous sinter, which the term sinter more frequently refers to. It has been suggested that the term "sinter" should be restricted to siliceous spring deposits and be dropped for calcareous deposits entirely.
A large complex of graduation towers is located in Ciechocinek, Poland. This entirely wooden construction was erected in the 19th century by Stanisław Staszic. The complex consists of three graduation towers with a total length of over 2 km. Many tourists visit it for health reasons.
A series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. "Wikipedia"
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Chalk is a form of limestone. It forms deep underwater. It is white, soft, porous, and among the many possible applications, it is used for writing on a blackboard. Sidewalk art uses a different kind of chalk. It is commonly made of gypsum and is available in several colors. The chalks in my picture are Sidewalk chalks. They are ¾” wide and come in very lovely colors.
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Jejudo is a volcanic island, so its beaches are composed of cooled lava. Lava cools down and becomes black, porous like a sponge and sharp. Walking around such a place is unrealistic, but it looks very unusual, like another planet.
Zelenci Springs is a nature reserve near the town of Kranjska Gora, in the far northwestern corner of Slovenia. It is the source of the Sava Dolinka River. At Zelenci Springs, water from underground Nadiža Creek (originating in the Planica Valley) re-emerges through the porous bottom of a 2 m deep lake, whose waters are noted for their deep, brilliant green. The spring and its surrounding area are named after this colour (Zelenci is a deadjectival plural noun from Slovene zelen 'green'.)