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.'''p001 Introduction - Ammonite'''


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.'''p005 Chapter 1 - Ochre: An Introduction'''
 .'''p001 Introduction - Ammonite'''


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 .'''p005 Chapter 1 - Ochre: An Introduction'''
 .p016 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschar#Escharotic | escharotic ]] a substance that kills unwanted or disease tissue.
 .p017 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humbug_(sweet) | Peppermint humbug ]]
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.'''p094 Chapter 5 Silver'''

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.'''p127 Chapter 6 Radium'''

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.'''p152 Chapter 7 Aerolite'''
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.'''p213 Chapter 9 Copper'''

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.'''p246 Chapter 10 Gold'''

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.'''p277 Chapter 11 Lithium: A Coda'''

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.'''p283 Soil'''
 .p025 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanene | Stanene ]] zero resistance 2D tin surface (?)
 .p027 Beardies . bearded men?
 .p027 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheal_Jane | Wheal Jane ]] is a disused tin mine near Baldhu and Chacewater in West Cornwall
 .p027 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winze | winze ]] minor connection between mine levels
 .p027 drift, adit = horizontal tunnels
 .p027 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoping | stope ]] open space after desired material removed
 .p027 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Towans | Mexico Towans ]] a sand dune
 .p028 [[ https://www.stivesbakery.co.uk/ | Saint Ives Bakery ]]
 .p030 James Forbes and Cornish tin mining - can't find 1794? 1983? citation
 .p032 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiterite | casserite ]] tin oxide mineral, SnO₂
 .p033 [[ https://pmirope.com/product/pmi-cavers-cows-tail/ | cow's tail line ]]
 .p034 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caving | potholing ]], UK term for spelunking

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 .'''p041 Chapter 3 Peat'''
 .p041 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_iron | bog iron ]]
 .p042 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peat | peat ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbent | sorbent ]]
 .p042 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_butter | Bog butter ]]
 .p043 anaerobic peat stops decay
 .p043 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindow_Man | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland | Doggerland ]] ~8000 BCE
 .p057 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide | Storegga Slide ]] huge submarine landslide west of Norway ~6200BCE, 20 meter tsunami
 .p057 By 2100, sea-level rise will approach [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_the_Great | Federick the Great ]] drained [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oderbruch | Oderbruch flood plain ]]
 .p058 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini | Mussolini ]] (workers) drained the [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontine_Marshes | Pontine Marshes ]] 80K hectares, 800km² coastal area southeast of Rome
 .p059 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein | Saddam Hussein ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draining_of_the_Mesopotamian_Marshes | drained ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Arabs | Marsh Arab ]] marshes
 .p064 1953 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_flood_of_1953 | Watersnoodramp ]] storm surge floods killed thousands

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 .'''p067 Chapter 4 Bronze'''
 .p067 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze | 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 [[ https://www.marinevesseltraffic.com/vessels/SEESTERN/CURRENT-POSITION/4700860e/211537060 | Seestern ]] barge on the Rhine, carrying 800 tonnes of building steel
 .p078 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disc | Nebra Sky Disk ]], Pleiades and Moon represent planting time (?)
 .p078 outer 82 degree bands signified solstice angles? no, that is ±23 degrees
 .p079 [[ https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/publications/the-circumpolar-context-of-the-sun-shipmotif-in-south-scandinavia/ | sun-ship? ]]
 .p080 Bronze Age: the wheel, writing, legal codes, and civil administration
 .p080 domestic [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onedin_Line | 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 [[ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kraftwerk_Hermann_Wenzel | Hermann Wenzel Power Station ]] near [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duisburg | Duisberg ]]
 .p084 50 billion tonnes of sand and gravel annual production, mostly for concrete
 .p092 803m [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelberg_(Thuringian_Highland) | Mittelberg mountain ]] in [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuringia | Thuringia ]]
 .p092 [[ https://www.kunstweg-arche-nebra.de/ | Mittelberg sky disk ]]

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 .'''p094 Chapter 5 Silver'''
 .p094 Athen's golden age supported by [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mines_of_Laurion | Laurium silver mines ]] on the [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attica | Attica penninsula ]]
 .p094 1545 discovery of [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potos%C3%AD | Potosi silver ]]
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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

Under a Metal Sky

A Journey Through Minerals, Greed, And Wonder

  • Philip Marsden . 2024 . 549.09 MAR . Beaverton Library


Ammonite

1

1.

Ochre: An Introduction

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2.

Tin

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3.

Peat

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4.

Bronze

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5.

Silver

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Radium

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Aerolite

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Mercury

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Copper

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Gold

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Lithium: A Coda

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Soil

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  • p001 Introduction - Ammonite



.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



  • p127 Chapter 6 Radium

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