To: cogitator
Is the stone pumice which is easily cut and worked??
19 posted on
11/12/2003 6:47:20 PM PST by
cpdiii
(RPH, Oil field Trash and proud of it)
To: cpdiii
It's not pumice; it's an impact breccia (a mineral formed by the fusion of hot semi-molten rock formed after the impact). The mineral is called "suevite". I don't know about its properties, but I expect that it's easily worked (and it's also fairly easily erodable, because they've had to replace several of the blocks in the church edifice because of excessive weathering).
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