Speedo

Speedo
Tesla
Tlatelolco
Warp and Woof  
Magic Carpet 
Patagonia

Prov. 9:18
"But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
 

SYRIA Palmyra (6) 

Lavender skies over the magnificent remains of Palmyra tell the story of a once bustling metropolis in the heart of the Syrian Desert.

Floral Leather Tapestry Rug

Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile 

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Chess: "Speedo" "warp and woof" "Tesla: Tlatelolco" "Magic Carpet" "Patagonia"

  “Geology and Paleontology” (use it with a grain of salt and only as chess dialectically): “It was in the sandstones of this shelving beach, near Corriguen Aike,that we discovered the rich deposit of fossil bones mentioned above. At this point, as at most places throughout this beach, erosion has taken place along the bedding planes, so that over considerable areas the surface of the beach represents essentially the same geological horizon. Atthis particular locality the dark green sandstones in which the bones were imbedded bore evidence of having been deposited over the flood plain of some stream or shallow lake. On walking about over the surface at lowtide, there could be seen the skulls and skeletons of those prehistoric beasts protruding from the rock in varying degrees of preservation. At one point the skull and skeleton of Nesodon would appear, at another might be seen the limbs or perhaps the teeth of the giant Astrapotheriimi just protruding from the rock, while a little farther on a skull and jaws of the little Icochilus grinned curiously, as though delighted with the prospect of being thus awakened from its long and uneventful sleep. On one hand, the muzzle of a skull of one of the larger carnivorous marsupials looked forth, with jaws fully extended and glistening teeth, the characteristic snarl of the living animal still clearly indicated, while at frequent

intervals the carapace of a Glyptodon raised its highly sculptured shell, like a rounded dome set with miniature rosettes, just above the surface of the sandstones. Throughout eighteen years spent almost constantly in collecting fossil vertebrates, during which time I have visited most of the more important localities of the western hemisphere, I have never seen anything to approach this locality near Corriguen Aike in the wealth of genera, species and individuals. The bones of these animals were not the only records preserved of their former existence, for at certain places, on looking across the surface of the sandstone, one could see their fossil footprints. At one locality especially favorable, where the erosion had evidently taken place along a single bedding plane over a considerable area, a series of tracks was seen extending uninterruptedly for a distance of about one hundred feet, making it quite possible to determine the exact stride of the animal. The presence of these tracks is conclusive evidence that these animals roamed over, lived and died in this very region during the time when the sandstones and shales which contain them were being deposited, and precludes the possibility of the deposits having been laid down over the bottom of a great lake, or any other large and stable body

of water. The origin of these deposits will be fully discussed when we come to treat of the geology of the region.  John Bell Hatcher Princeton Expedition to the Patagonia Vol.I Ch.IV

warp and woof

n.
The underlying structure on which something is built; a base or foundation: “profound dislocations throughout the entire warp and woof of the American economy” (David A. Stockman).
A distinctive, complex underlying pattern or structure: contexture, fabric, fiber, texture, web. See be.

Idioms: warp and woof

The underlying structure or foundation of something, as in He foresaw great changes in the warp and woof of the nation's economy. This expression, used figuratively since the second half of the 1500s, alludes to the threads that run lengthwise ( warp) and crosswise (woof) in a woven fabric.

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