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• http://wiki.keithl.com/MetalSky

Under a Metal Sky

A Journey Through Minerals, Greed, And Wonder

• Philip Marsden . 2024 . 549.09 MAR . Beaverton Library

• p001 Introduction - Ammonite

• p005 Chapter 1 - Ochre: An Introduction

• p016 escharotic a substance that kills unwanted or disease tissue.

• p017 Peppermint humbug

.p024 Chapter 2 Tin

• p025 Stanene zero resistance 2D tin surface (?)

• p027 Beardies . bearded men?

• p027 Wheal Jane is a disused tin mine near Baldhu and Chacewater in West Cornwall

• p027 winze minor connection between mine levels

• p027 drift, adit = horizontal tunnels

• p027 stope open space after desired material removed

• p027 Mexico Towans a sand dune

• p028 Saint Ives Bakery

• p030 James Forbes and Cornish tin mining - can't find 1794? 1983? citation

• p032 casserite tin oxide mineral, SnO₂

• p033 cow's tail line

• p034 potholing, UK term for spelunking

• p041 Chapter 3 Peat

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• p042 peat sorbent

• p042 Bog butter

• p043 anaerobic peat stops decay

• p043 Lindow Man 2000 y.o. body from peat bog

• p043 peatlands hold twice as much carbon as all the world's forests combined, release CO₂ when drained
• p044 underground peat can burn for years. Forty billion tonnes of carbon in buried peat.
• p048 Peat decay drops land level and damages farm soil on top

• p057 Doggerland ~8000 BCE

• p057 Storegga Slide huge submarine landslide west of Norway ~6200BCE, 20 meter tsunami

• p057 By 2100, sea-level rise will approach early Holocene (about 60 meters)

  • <15m Miami, New Orleans, Boston, Seattle, Philadephia, Houston, New York

  • <30m Washington DC, San Francisco, Portland, San Jose

  • Los Angeles is 82m, Dallas 129m, Chicago 181m
• p058 500K serfs built St. Petersburg Russia 1703 to 1712? 1762?, 30K to 100K died

• p058 Federick the Great drained Oderbruch flood plain

• p058 Mussolini (workers) drained the Pontine Marshes 80K hectares, 800km² coastal area southeast of Rome

• p059 Saddam Hussein drained Marsh Arab marshes

• p064 1953 Watersnoodramp storm surge floods killed thousands

• p067 Chapter 4 Bronze

• p067 Bronze 9 parts copper and one part tin at 1000℃

• p068 Oxidized bronze turns green, but does not degrade like iron
• p071 bronze hoards buried, speculations about "seeding" bronze creation

• p074 Seestern barge on the Rhine, carrying 800 tonnes of building steel

• p078 Nebra Sky Disk, Pleiades and Moon represent planting time (?)

• p078 outer 82 degree bands signified solstice angles? no, that is ±23 degrees

• p079 sun-ship?

• p080 Bronze Age: the wheel, writing, legal codes, and civil administration

• p080 domestic chicken Gallus gallus domesticus originated in China 8000 years ago

  • hens lay 500-600 eggs in a lifetime, some breeds 800, all time record 1444 eggs. Culled after 12 to 18 months as production declines
• p081 normal marine convention is passing port (left) side to port side; upper Rhine upstream traffic passes on inner bend

• p082 Onedin Line BBC TV 1971-80 about 1880-86 Liverpool shipping company

• p082 Prewar Seestern was barge pushed by tugboats

• p084 320 MW gas fired Hermann Wenzel Power Station near Duisberg

• p084 50 billion tonnes of sand and gravel annual production, mostly for concrete

• p092 803m Mittelberg mountain in Thuringia

• p092 Mittelberg sky disk

• p094 Chapter 5 Silver

• p094 Athen's golden age supported by Laurium silver mines on the Attica penninsula

• p094 1545 discovery of Potosi silver 60,000 tonnes extracted, estimated 50,000 tonnes remaining

• p104 Swedish inventor Christopher Polhem 1661-1751

• p106 Kunstgraben water channels fed water wheels from sources kilometers away

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• p277 Chapter 11 Lithium: A Coda

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• p322 Man and metals : a history of mining in relation to the development of civilization
  • T. A. Rickard 1932

  • https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C217911 . Multco Central 2 volumes . Library use only R 622.09 R53M