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From Fyfield Down Where Stonehenge Stones Came From
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Dave Hemery wrote me on March 8 2001, "This is earth from beside the glacial sarsen stones (in Fyfield Down, stoney valley) which is where the Stonehenge stones came from. I don’t know if I went deep enough but I hope it may produce something unusual.”
 From Where Stonehenge Stones Were? Glacial Sarsen from Fyfield Down Fyfield Down Where Stonehenge Stones Once Were Where Stonehenge Stones Once Were Glacial Sarsen from Fyfield Downs Glacial Sarsen from .... Gritty Brown from England's Soil Where Stonehenge Stones Were
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The Gulf of Mexico has me fascinated as I imagine runoff from Kansas travelling into it, salt domes underneath it, dying coral, wonderful fishing and fragile ecosystems all together.
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Currently available :
 Orca Basin Orca Basin Orca Basin Orca Basin Orca Basin on Porcelain Orca Basin Orca Basin Gulf of Mexico Gulfs of Mexico & Maine Plus Orca & Santa Barbara Basins Gulf of Mexico, Orca Island Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Mexico
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South China Sea
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 South China Sea South China Sea & Kane Fractiure Zone
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 Mouth of Amazon Mouth of the Amazon Mouth of Amazon River, Mediterranean Mouth of the Amazon
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 Eocene Bowl Indian Ocean Eocene Bowl
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 Mediterranean Exit of Rhone River Mediterranean
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 3.25" high x 3" wide
Black Sea is anoxic and has seasonal blooms which left fibrous material in the sediment which burns out and leaves space where the salt shows that it interacted with the exposed clay and the silica in the clay combined with salt to form an orangey blush.
Interior glaze i9s shiny brown assembled from refined materials.

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 5" wide
Black Sea on translucent porcelain.

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 Interior warm white glaze (on porcelain) is called "Snowball Earth," from an area now called Namibia that was assumed to have been a marine deposit from 635 million years ago.
Back is glazed with slurry from drillings into the mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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 3.5" high x 3" wide
Exterior is from Southern Ocean. Interior shiny brown assembled from refined materials.

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 4.5" x 2"
Porcelain clay covered with Dead Sea mud melted. Click to read back. Rim and back are glazes assembled from refined materials.

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 4" x 2" Porcelain.
Branching pattern interior resulted from evely applying the last of a small sample given to me by Stanlee Lipkin. Rim and lip are glaze assembled from refined materials.

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 3.5" high
Says, "Black Sea - anoxic - seasonal blooms." Bottom exterior is Black Sea. Interior is celadon glaze assembled from refined materials.

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Galapagos
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Visit R/V Dayang Yihao for more information about the Chinese ship with WHOI engineer Rod Catanach aboard, who brought me this sample. It's high in carbonate which rarely melts but littered with volcanic sand that probably lowered the melting point of this collection of marine particles.
 Galapagos Galapagos Galapagos Galapagos & Kane Fracture Zone Galapagos & Kane Fracture Zone
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