Romanian Trovants - Living Stones

In Romania, at about 35 km from Ramnicu Valcea, going towards Targu Jiu – not far from where the great sculptor Brancusi was born – is located one of the most interesting museum of Romania, The Romanian Trovants Museum Natural Reserve. The exhibits are a collection of some beautifully strange stones, supposed to be formed about 6 million years before in a sand stratification cemented by the limestone waters. Once you have gotten there you are overwhelmed by the multitude of shapes of these stones that seem to be carved by a very skillful and gifted sculptor.  They are called “the living stones” or “the stones that are growing by themselves”. However, despite their best efforts, scientists have failed to come up with a logical explanation why the stones have extensions that remind of roots. If they are cut, their sections have colored rings, just like trees. The museum is known as “Muzeul Trovantilor” and it is a must see for a visitor of Romania. The “curator” of the museum is  KOGAYON ASSOCIATION and they are protected by UNESCO. (LIVING STONES, GROWING STONES)

Hypothesis on the paleodynamic (paleoseismic) origin of the trovants ("Sandsteinkonkretionen") 

Romanian Trovants – Sculptures by The Greatest Artist of Them All 

Cu 6 milioane de ani inaintea nasterii marelui sculptor Constantin Brancusi, natura isi crea, nu departe de locul lui natal, propriile „Domnisoare Pogany”. Li se spune trovanti, dar numele care s-a incetatenit in randul localnicilor este „pietre care cresc”. n apropiere de drumul care leaga Ramnicu Valcea de Targu Jiu, in comuna valceana Costesti, natura a creat unele dintre cele mai surprinzatoare sculpturi de piatra. Forme bizare, milimetrice sau de dimensiunea unui om, continua sa iasa la iveala pe masura ce oamenii exploateaza nisipul din cariera. In jurul balatrucilor sau dorobantilor, cum ii mai numesc localnicii, s-a tesut un adevarat folclor: unii spun ca bolovanii ar avea origini supranaturale, altii ca ar fi marturii ale existentei unor civilizatii extraterestre superioare. Cert e ca nici oamenii de stiinta nu au reusit, pana acum, sa desluseasca in totalitate misterul formarii trovantilor, si tot ce pot face, deocamdata, este sa emita ipoteze pe care sa incerce sa le verifice in laborator. Ei sustin că formatiunile, numite in literatura de specialitate si concretiuni grezoase, ar avea peste 6 milioane de ani vechime si ar fi aparut datorita unor cimentari locale ale nisipului, posibil pe fondul unei activitati seismice. Din Romania si pana in Noua Zeelanda, din Antarctica si pana in Groenlanda, trovantii starnesc uimire si admiratie. Desi sunt usor de recunoscut chiar si de nespecialisti, ei difera mult ca marime, culoare ori consistenta si pot avea forme dintre cele mai diverse, de pilda sfera, disc, cilidru... Interesante sunt pietrele sferice rosii din Parcul National Theodore Roosevelt, situat in Dakota de Nord, SUA, colorate astfel datorita faptului ca au in compozitia lor fier. Desi ating pana la 3 metri diametru, concretiunile de aici pot fi considerate pitice pe langa cele din depresiunea Faiyum, din Egipt, care ajung pana la 9 metri si par a fi cele mai mari din lume. Concretiuni grezoase mai sunt intalnite si in Africa de Sud, China, Australia, Mexic, Argentina, Peru, Rusia, Kazahstan, Spania, Franta sau Cehia. Americanii au trovantii lor in Colorado, Wyoming, California, Arkansas, Montana sau New York.

Trovantii -misterul „pietrelor vii” 

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Living on an Island - Paradise Beach

Living On An Island
STATUS QUO ( Parfitt / Young )

Easy when you're number one
Everybody say you're having fun
Smiling for the public eye
When your body say you wanna die
Living on an island
Looking at another line
Waiting for my friend to come
And we'll get high

Hugh he got a real nice place
Cruxie gonna be there soon
And I just want to see his face
I'm getting lonely in my empty room
Living on an island
Working at another line
Waiting for my friend to come
And we'll get high

Passing time away in blue skies
Thinking of the smile in her eyes
Easy, it's easy

Living on an island
Oh boy, we're having fun
Living on an island
Thinking 'bout the things I've done
Living on an island
Searching for an other line
Waiting for my friend to come
And we'll get high
Waiting for my friend to come
And we'll get high
I said we're gonna get high
Yeah, we're gonna get high
We're gonna touch the sky
sky...sky...sky...sky...sky...sky...

KAVALA
METZOVO
METEORA
METEORA
THASSOS
CORFU
FLY WITH ME

Wearing The Inside Out / LIFE for SALE

From morning to night I stayed out of sight, didn't recognize I'd become,

No more than alive I'd barely survive, in a word...overrun

Won't hear a sound from my mouth , I've spent too long on the inside out

My skin is cold to the human touch , this bleeding heart's not beating much....

I murmured a vow of silence and now I don't even hear when I think aloud

Extinguished by light I turn on the night wear it's darkness with an empty smile

Look at him now he's paler somehow but he's coming round. He's starting to choke , it's been so long since he spoke , well he can have the words right from my mouth

And with these words I can see clear through the clouds that covered me

Just give it time then speak my name, now we can hear ourselves again

I'm holding out for the day when all the clouds have blown away

I'm with you now, can speak your name, Now we can hear ourselves again

He's curled into the corner but still the screen is flickering

He's curled into the corner
But still the screen is flickering
With an endless stream of garbage to
...curse the place
In a sea of random images
The self-destructing animal
Waiting for the waves to break

He's standing on the threshold
Caught in fiery anger
And hurled into the furnace hell
...curse the place
He's torn in all directions
And the screen is still flickering
Waiting for the flames to break

Wearing The Inside Out
by Pink Floyd
Album: The Division Bell - 1994
Content Owner: Sony Music Entertainment