Chris is a regular contributor for the TravelingGeologist and you can see his other posts here. Of all the things quintessentially China, the terra cotta warriors and horses of Qin Shi Huang are definitely at the near the top of the list. The first broken fragments of the sculptures were discovered in 1974 by a farmer in the Shaanxi […]
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Bentonite formation in Bavaria with Mathias Köster
Mathias Köster is a geologist and doctoral candidate at the Chair of Engineering Geology, Technische Universität München. His passion for clay and industrial mineral deposits has taken him from the Bavarian countryside to the Basin and Range province in Arizona, always looking for interesting rocks. He applies various methods, with a focus on X-ray diffraction […]