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Imagine enormous, snow-white cotton balls intersected by terraces filled with pale blue hot springs. While this seems impossible, it is exactly what you’ll see when you visit Pamukkale in Turkey!

Join us as we drive through yet another UNESCO - World Heritage Centre.

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[vintagehomecollection]

Located on Cancun's waterfront, Casa del Sol consists of five separate villas for a client who wanted to feel contemporary, comfortable, and bathed in unabashed luxury.

Designing with Tile, Stone & Brick, 1995

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coffee tables made with travertine, quartzite, green marble, & weathering steel by rotganzen

[blueiscoool]

Dentist Discovers Human-Like Jawbone and Teeth in a Floor Tile

While touring his parents' recently renovated European home, a dentist spotted something unsettling. Embedded in a travertine floor tile along the hallway leading to the terrace was what appeared to be a human jawbone. Sliced diagonally, the tile revealed a cross-section of several teeth. Uncertain of the proper course of action, the dentist turned to Reddit, where the discovery ignited a frenzy of online interest, ranging from enthusiastic curiosity to sheer disgust.

The discovery has captured the attention of an international team of scientists who are eager to examine the fossil. They believe it could belong to an extinct human ancestor.

"If it turns out to be a fossil hominin, which I think it is, it should be studied and placed in a museum," John Kappelman, an anthropology professor at the University of Texas at Austin who specializes in hominid and hominin origins and evolution, said in an email.

Travertine, a type of limestone commonly used in construction due to its aesthetic appeal and longevity, often forms near mineral springs and can contain fossilized remnants of past life. While plant, algae, and even animal fossils like those of rhinos and giraffes are occasionally found in travertine, human remains are exceptionally rare, as noted by University of Wisconsin paleoanthropologist John Hawks, Forbes reported.

In a blog post titled "How Many Bathrooms Have Neanderthals in the Tile?" Dr. Hawks highlights the uncommon nature of this particular discovery.

"I expect there will be many twists and turns in the story of this jawbone," Mr Hawks wrote. "With some teeth preserved and abundant surrounding rock, I expect that specialists will be able to learn a great deal about the life of this individual and when he or she lived."

The European dentist, who specialises in dental implants, told Forbes that he immediately knew he wasn't just looking at stone tile's natural pattern variations when he saw several teeth staring up at him.

"From my dentist's point of view I had no doubt it was some kind of human," he told Forbes. "The teeth distribution and size of the mandible is characteristic. Also, the width of the cortex is specific to ancient humans."

"I don't think it is Jimmy Hoffa," the dentist joked in a follow-up to his original Reddit post. He said he prefers not to reveal his name, or his parents' location, to protect the family's privacy.

When the dentist spotted a jawbone as part of his parents' home upgrade, he was surprised for a different reason.

It is very, very unusual to find vertebrate fossils in processed travertine tile, and hominin fossils 100 times more so," Kappelman said. "We have only a handful."

Mr Kappelman was part of a team that observed the earliest evidence of tuberculosis etched on 500,000-year-old human skeletal remains discovered by factory workers in Turkey cutting travertine tile for commercial use. The scientists published the findings of their research in 2007 in The American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

[tethysresort]

Inspired by a poll, everyone who follows me gets to look at a rock per day for the month of October! 

Day 23: Today’s rock is a small pile of speleothems, or cave formations, from Kokoweef Mountain, Mojave Desert!  They are made of travertine, and the marbled colors formed as the water chemistry in the cave shifted over the seasons for thousands of years.  I picked these up out of an abandoned mine tailings pile.

Kokoweef is an interesting place.  We were there by chance, camping on our way to other geology.  The mountain is made of limestone and full of caves, not unusual for the area.  (Mitchell caverns is nearby.)  But there is a legend that somewhere deep inside the twisting and dangerous passages of the caves is a (geologically improbable) river of water and gold of monstrous proportions. 

Over the last one hundred years, prospectors have spent their lives and money looking for the gold.  They have scoured the mountain, ripping out cave formations and digging giant holes in their quest.  There are still active claims on the mountain as the search continues.

But gold has never been found.

[puttain]

Villa Tugendhat by Mies Van der Rohe in Brno, Czechia.

[upstairsdownstairsandinbetween]

Silver Travertine Cantilever Staircase, Green Park, London,

Jamie Fobert Architects,

Collaborators:

Contractor: Beck Interiors Stone Staircase: Atelier de France Stone Mason: Luc Tamborero of Atelier Romeo SRL

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Potamon Crab in Travertine

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[geologyin-blog]

Travertine is a calcareous sedimentary rock composed primarily of calcium carbonate (CaCO₃). It forms around freshwater springs, particularly hot springs, through the precipitation of dissolved minerals from the water. Read more here:

[nouveaucrystals]

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[idroolinmysleep]

“The item found in the travertine floors could have been something that died around the spring or died somewhere else and was washed into the region and covered in the travertine. Those are the two most likely scenarios,” [Dr. Andrew Leier, chair of the Geological Society of America’s sedimentary geology division] explains. But is it a human jaw? “It absolutely looks like one,” say Amber D. Riley, MS, RDH, the immediate past president of American Society of Forensic Odontology, and Anthony R. Cardoza, DDS, a forensic dentistry consultant, in a joint email to AD. The arch shape and tooth anatomy appear human, but perhaps the most unusual finding is that it looks like the person may have had dental work done. “There appear to be absent teeth and the bone tissue has filled into where the teeth once were. Another human potentially intervened and removed teeth due to injury or disease,” they explain.

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[aesthetelabel]

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[ultrastones]

Silver Travertine is a very sophisticated stone that perfectly matches modern interiors. The stone boasts a uniform distribution of linear veins in muted grey, beige, and white hues. Furthermore, each band shows intricate patterns in contrasting colors, adding more detail to the overall appearance of the stone.