Basalt

was created in honor of the olmec culture. This particular sculpture is perceived to be created in the early-middle preclassic periods. To be specific, it’s creation falls from 1500-400 B.C. The human/jaguar head is composed of a material known as basalt. This is a dark, fine-grained volcanic rock that sometimes displays a columnar structure. The head’s scale is rather large. Displayed in the current method that it is at the Snite, the sculpture is approximately a little less than three feet…

The figure above shows the Aztec Sun Stone which is also known as the Calendar Stone. It is a very big stone sculpture, measuring in at 3.58 meters across, 38.58 inches thick and weighed approximately about 25 tons. Although it is called the Calendar Stone, it does not work like a calendar. This Sun Stone is actually a meticulously carved solar disk that signifies the power of the rulers during the Aztec empire. The stone got the name Calendar Stone because the band surrounding the sun has 20…

1. The title of this sculpture is The Goddess Coatlicue. She stands at eight feet, six inches, and is located in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City. An Aztec sculptor created her out of an igneous rock called basalt. This black or gray colored rock is fine-grained and forms from lava as small amounts shoot out of volanoes and cool quickly. This statue was originally discovered in 1790, but was immediately reburied due to its terrifying nature.…

Have you ever heard of the theory of plate tectonics? Around the beginning of the 1960s the discovery of this theory started an uprising in the study of earth sciences. Between now and then, this theory has been confirmed by scientists, who are able to formulate a much better understanding of how plate tectonics shaped the way our planet is today. It is now knows that plate tectonics has or has had at least some influence over almost all geologic processes. AS I’m sure you can imagine, the idea…

History Assignment Maham Ahmad Qurat-ul-Ain -BBA-2k14 (B) Pyramids of Egypt What were the Pyramids of Egypt : The Pyramids of Egypt are one of the most inspred creations of man. They were built as tombs to the pharoahs and their queens. The Egyptians believed in life after death and so for the pharoahs to safely join the afterlife their bodies were to be protected. The aim of the builders of the pyramids was to create a structure that could withstand time and it's consequences and last…

Western Montanah was full of water. Evidence- Some of the land forms that were left behind from the Missoula Floods were; empty canyons, random bolders in plataue, rip marks in mountians, dry water falls, large amounts of dry land, verticle colums of basalt, deep colonies where water flooded, dry steam beds, sad bars, torn sediments of mountians creating clifs with water falls, wiper out canyons, carver ripple marks. Cause of Plate Techtonics 6.) Most of earths movement is caused by the thermal…

enough space for two people to pass each other. Roads were finished with a gravel surface sometimes mixed with lime or, for more prestigious sections such as near towns, with dressed stone blocks of volcanic tuff, cobbles, or paving stones of silice (basalt) or limestone. First a trench was dug and a rudus (foundation) was laid using various stones materials. On top of this a layer of finer gravel was added and the road was then surfaced with blocks or slabs. The center of the roads were higher…

the Earth. This has been observed by telescopes since the middle of the XVII century. IV. Space Age The first spacecraft that reached the Moon were the Luna 1, 2 and 3 of the former Soviet Union, in 1959. Of these, the Luna 3 orbited the Moon, took photographs of the dark side, which is not visible from Earth, and then scanned and transmitted those images. In the decade that followed, 19 other missions had as its goal the Moon. In 1970 a Soviet lunar vehicle landed and was able to return with a…

Egypt to disrupt any incoming British merchants by cutting the trade route to India . During Bonaparte expedition he assign France leading scientist to journey with him. After a visit in a unfamiliar town. Napoleon soldiers discovered a slab of black basalt written in hieroglyphics, called Rosetta stone. Once the army disembarked in Egypt, the France army was bombarded with British artillery . British navy ships commanded by Horatio Nelson. The British fleet destroyed many French boats.…

moves 7cm north each year. About 23-24 million years ago the Gold Coast Hinterland was over a hotspot which is a weakness in the Earth’s crust that forces basaltic magma to the surface and erupts to form expansive volcanoes. On top of that, Rhyolite, Basalt and Pyroclastic rock were formed and through later eruptions, and acidic Rhyolite was laid down to form the cliffs of Springbrook plateau. 10 million years after this, the volcano began to die. Over the next millennia the lava plugged many of…