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Indie rock’s surge into the spotlight in the 2000s began with The Strokes and their 2001 debut album Is This It. Channeling the spirit of ’60s and ’70s bands like The Velvet Underground and The Ramones, the band aimed to sound, in their own words, like “a group from the past tha...
Sulfidic — a horizon containing pyrite which, upon exposure to oxygen, can produce so much sulfuric acid that it kills plants and can cause fish kills (Figure 8b). Petrocalcic — in which so much calcium carbonate is accumulated that it literally forms a rock-like layer in the middle of ...
There is a big semantic problem, however, with the term “rock.” Rock is not the same thing as rock ’n’ roll, even though the two terms are often used interchangeably. Rock refers specifically to the music of the hippies and “freaks” emanating from California during the Summer of Lo...
A hydrated salt is a crystalline salt molecule that is loosely attached to a certain number of water molecules. Salt is created when an acid's anion and a base's cation are combined to produce an acid-base molecule. A salt molecule that is not bound to any water molecules is an anhydra...
This site has nothing to do with drugs, outside of the mind-altering stuff’s influence on much of the music. The Psychedelic Sight hive has long graduated from dope and booze, preferring to get high on acid rock, not acid. “Music is your only friend … until the end,” as the ma...
The Adirondack spruce, also known as the red spruce or Picea rubens, is a long-lived conifer tree found in higher elevation areas of Canada as well as the American South and Northeast regions. In some places, this tree is known as the West Virginia spruce or yellow spruce. This variety ...
Acid Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic. Sour The sensation of a sour taste. Acid (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock. Sour A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sug...
Every serious field geologist carries a small bottle of 10 percenthydrochloric acidto perform this quick field test, used to distinguish the most common carbonate rocks,dolomite, andlimestone(ormarble, which may be composed of either mineral). A few drops of the acid are put on the rock, and...
A crystal is a substance in which the constituentatoms,molecules, orionsare packed in a regularly ordered, repeating three-dimensional pattern. Most crystals aresolids.