Man, no luck! My big box hardware stores failed me! I’ll do some research though and try and figure out where you can get them!
Category: geology (Page 2 of 2)
- Magnitude 6.5 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES July 24, 2010
- Magnitude 7.4 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES July 23, 2010
- Magnitude 7.6 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES July 23, 2010
- Magnitude 7.3 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES July 23, 2010
M 5.0-5.9: 33 earthquakes
M 6.0-6.9: 3 earthquakes
M 7.0-7.9: 3 earthquakes
Wooden “Stonehenge” Emerges From Prehistoric Ohio
Timber circles, like U.K. monument, aligned to summer solstice, study reveals.
Just northeast of Cincinnati, Ohio, a sort of wooden Stonehenge is slowly emerging as archaeologists unearth increasing evidence of a 2,000-year-old ceremonial site.
Among their latest finds: Like Stonehenge, the Ohio timber circles were likely used to mark astronomical events such as the summer solstice.
Formally called Moorehead Circle but nicknamed “Woodhenge” by non-archaeologists, the site was once a leafless forest of wooden posts. Laid out in a peculiar pattern of concentric, but incomplete, rings, the site is about 200 feet (57 meters) wide. (See a picture of reconstructed timber circles near Stonehenge.)
Today only rock-filled postholes remain, surrounded by the enigmatic earthworks of Fort Ancient State Memorial (map). Some are thousands of feet long and all were built by Indians of the pre-agricultural Hopewell culture, the dominant culture in midwestern and eastern North America from about A.D. 1 to 900.
Yes I went somewhere beautiful last weekend! I drove up the Glenn Hwy to hunt for fossils in a friends field area. He has a dinosaur he is studying and we went to help find fossils to constrain the age of the deposit. So, long story short the really awesome ones now belong to our museum but will forever have my initials attached to them!
Thinking about rocks
I am surrounded by them, all the time. I do use them a lot in my magical practice so I took the time to think about the ones on my alter and what I use them to represent. And turns out, mostly its where I found them and how they formed.
I have river cobles and beach stones that have been warn smooth by the water, and that’s what I associate them with, the power of water. I also have bits of coral and shells and a crab shell that I found on the beach (note: if it’s a shell that say a hermit crab could use for a home I usually leave them, I like weathered bits of shells more then whole ones)
Lava! I have a lot of different volcanoes, I have ash from Mt Redoubt, rocks from Hawaii (I have an opinion about that curse… and some inside information I’ll tell you if you ask me 😉 ) some from Mt St Helens area, and a few other places (obsidian from Nevada….) This I associate with fire, and power and magma! Again back to how it formed, most of them violently!
I have large calcite crystals that precipitated from water, cool other rocks, that formed in a variety of ways, meta-sediments, sediments, fossils, to me these are earth, the constant recycling of material on the surface, brings to mind the cycle of explosions of life and mass extinction, and the rock cycle.
I don’t have rocks that mean air to me right now, but if I got my hand on some wind carved sandstone or nice dune cross beds, those rocks would be air to me and the power of the wind.
I guess what I am trying to say is that I have always felt that the energies in stones come more from how they were formed, or eroded then what their chemical make up is. I’ll try and come up with some good GEO 101 info on different rock forming environments. I tend to think they are pretty damn cool, but then I am a geologist
Oh and I am going fossil hunting this weekend! EEEEE so exciting!
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