The short answer – a shellfish – to narrow it down even further, it is a mollusc or mollusk. It is an edible invertebrate mainly found in cold water coastal rocky shelves and reefs. The abalone attaches itself to a rock by a foot and then builds it’s shell around it. Abalone shell...
valued at millions of dollars. “The largest stone is called the “Star of Africa I,” or “Cullinan I,” and at 530 carats, it is the largest-cut fine-quality colorless diamond in the world. The second largest stone, the “Star of Africa II” or “Cullinan II,” ...
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Check the Record As we mentioned above, a brand-new vinyl record is less often the culprit of playback skipping, though it is not unheard of. Let’s run through some reasons the vinyl might be at fault. Warp Production mistakes, though exceedingly rare, can cause a vinyl record to become...
Also the SD is a bargain!! I spend 100+ nights a year under canvas, either backpacking or biketouring, and most of those are in the UK so waterproofing is essential and of course the ability to stand up in strong winds. Are there any others to consider in this category style? Reply ...
Salt domes form when a layer of salt is deeply buried by other rock units. Salt has a lower specific gravity than most other rocks. If it is buried by rocks of higher specific gravity, it will become buoyant. It will attempt to rise through the overlying rocks like a bubble of air thr...
This is another 10 year old double-broomed ram that she shot with her Lilja barreled 7mm-08 at 367 yards. A couple of weeks later Dawneen shot a 10″ Kodiak billy, that green scored 53″, with the same rifle! She’s had a great season on mountain game....
McBrayer:It is rare for a great show to last that long. I know how good I got it. I realize how high the bar has been set. I know something like this may never happen to me again. But I just want to work on fun projects with fun people, and I think I’m going to be just...
“One day, you see the water is just calm and the ship is rock steady. You wake up in the morning and you see it’s a storm coming in and waves of maybe five meters, six meters, eight meters. You never know.” The key, he says, is to plan. On board, Gupta heads up around...
professor of Earth and planetary science at the Univeristy of California, Berkeley. Along with two other colleagues, they coauthoreda sensational 1980 paperabout the “iridium anomaly” — a 1-centimeter-thick (0.4-inch-thick) layer of sedimentary rock rich in iridium, an element rare on Earth...