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Like the scene-setting Part 9 and Part 10 photos, this detail shot was taken on a lakeside, North Shore Volcanic Group outcrop. It's situated at the southern end of Kitchi Gammi Park, on the eastern side of the Lester River mouth.
At 5.5 in (14 cm) long, the marker pen provides scale. It is also aligned, more or less, with some very interesting slits or linear grooves in the stone.
Its glacially polished surface gleaming in full sunlight, this Mesoproterozoic, 1.1-Ga-old basalt began as mafic lava erupted into the Midcontinent Rift. Much more recently, toward the end of the Pleistocene epoch roughly 15-10 ky ago, it was overridden by the Superior Lobe of the Laurentide ice sheet.
As mentioned in previous posts of this set, ice is not a normal solid, and is in fact a non-Newtonian fluid. That means that when it encounters a hard object in its path, it becomes a viscous substance that flows around or over it with a lot less friction than you'd think.
However, if the ice has rocky sediments ranging from silt to boulders encased in its lower surface, it can scrape, scratch, sculpt, smooth, burnish, and streamline the bedrock underneath. What's most evident here is the splendid collection of striations, or narrow linear incisions, made by such embedded fragments.
But if you take a close look, you'll also see quite a few arc- or boomerang-shaped crescentic gouges. These features are essentially divots in the basalt that were produced by the pressure of downward-pushing glacial rock.
While striations just show the axis of movement of the glacier, the crescentic gouges reveal which direction of the axis actually represents the forward movement of the ice sheet. In this case, that direction was generally west-southwestward—toward this image's lower left. Keep in mind that the gouges' centers point ahead, and their horns point backward, just the way an arrowhead would.
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my Integrative Natural History of Minnesota's North Shore album.
Located at the corner of Bayswater and Somerset W. How is it possible to walk by a building and never really notice it? Very easy,
of the shadow and the light happens when we least expect it but not to worry, once our mind and our heart align, it's inevitable.
Visit spotlight.duke.edu/50years/ to learn more about Duke University's yearlong commemoration of the 1963 desegregation of the undergraduate student body.
Jewish cemetery in Külsheim, Germany
The cemetery is an awesome place for the Jews who call it in Hebrew: Bet ha-chaj (House of the living), Bet ha-kwarot (Hause of graves), Bet ha-olam (Eternal House) and in Yiddish 'Getort' (Good Place). It is a place of 'eternal rest', meaning that no grave can be reused and that there is no end to the use of a grave. Jews only go to the cemetery with their heads covered in respect of the Holiness of this place. Visiting a grave the Kaddisch Prayer is said and as ancient ritual a little stone is put onto the grave as memorial of the visit.
The tombstones in Külsheim stand with their simplicity for equality of all men in death. The few decorative details symbolise religious believes. Blessing hands indicate that the dead was from the tribe of Kohanim (Priests), the jug for someone from the Levites, the ram horn for a shofar player, the circumcision knife for a Mohalim, crowns are a symbol for a respected family name, grapes for a blessed life on earth, representations of animals however, are from more recent times and indicate surnames.
The last line at the lower end of a tombstone is mostly a shortened saying in Hebrew: 'Be his(her) soul bound into the eternal life.'
This cemetery was created in 1658 and is therefore one of the oldest in the region of Franconia (Germany). It was the central Jewish cemetery for Külsheim, Hardheim, Gissigheim, Königheim, Tauberbischofsheim and Hochhausen. The Jewish community paid a tax to the city of Külsheim for the use of the cemetery. The last person was buried here in April 1938.
Dammaged tombstones date from the Third Reich period. 1952 the fence around the cemetery was redone. Today the 'Suprime Council of Israelites of Baden' owns the cemetery.
The location of the medieval cemetery, previous to this one, is unknown. It might have been in the district called 'Paradise'.
The flight James Webb Space Telescope NIRSpec instrument, undergoing integration.
Credit: Astrium/NIRSpec
HPPT! Happy Pretty Pink Tuesday. In a potted pink geranium, there appears this integrated flower:) Blessings to each of you:)
CAPSTONE spacecraft, built by Terran Orbital and owned and operated by Advanced Space, being prepared for payload integration at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1
www.landscape-design-advisor.com - This full color landscape design plan was created by Integration Design Studio in Carlsbad, CA. The design plan illustrates a luxury outdoor living space with a variety of proposed features. The landscape architect will use the design rendering to review the placement of hardscape elements with the client before creating a master plan. Courtyards, dining and seating areas, water features, and an outdoor spa are all included in the landscape design.
Vega flight VV01 is set to lift off on 13 February.
ESA’s new, small launcher will carry nine satellites into orbit on its very first flight: Italian space agency’s LARES and ALMASat-1 with seven CubeSats from European universities.
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Household objects are blended into the gardens at My Big Backyard to teach kids about how we use plants every day.
Memphis Botanic Gardens
Memphis, Tenn.
Felipe LarraÃn Bascuñán, Minister of Finance of Chile at the World Economic Forum on Latin America 2013. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
The modest bus station in Aberystwyth next to the imposing 1925 train station, now used as a Wetherspoons
Integration in a photo.
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