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Under a Metal Sky

.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
p041 bog iron
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
p107 silver co-precipitates with lead; silver mining caused lead poisoning of miners and cattle
p108 native beach and oak forests cut, replaced with monoculture spruce, Große Wurmtrocknis infestation of bark beetles destroyed 30,000 hectares of forest in 1800
p110 mechanical models: Susan Stewart 1984 On Longing PSU 4th P302.S692
p111 trees "spillikined against the sides" verb?
p112 greywacke hard dark clay-fine sandstone
p112 hornfels hardened metamorphic rock
p113 Goethe 1749-1832 devoted to nature and geology, driven by connection, huge rock collection
p117 The Brocken 1141 meter mountain in the Harz mountain range (Larch Mountain is 1055 meters)
p124 Goethe neologism Veloziferische fast devilish modern life

p127 Chapter 6 Radium
p128 Marie Curie radium 3e6 more radioactive than uranium
p129 radium killed flour grubs instantly, except for one that lived three times longer
p130 Radithor manufactured 400,000 bottles between 1918 and 1930
p131 Eben Byers drank 1,400 bottles
p132 Marie Curie died of aplastic anemia age 66, her notebooks are dangerous to work with
p141 Jáchymov radon spa, uranium mines, Soviet prisoner miners, now mostly unoccupied.
p141 Cornwall St. Ives Wheal Trenwith mine full of pitchblende? South Terras mine
p149 Nazi occupation of Jáchymov did not lead to uranium bomb; scientists fled, or banished because they were Jews

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

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