#grainstone

Montparnasse train incident. The drive of Granville to Paris hoping to make up time for 131 passengers, increased the speed and the air brakes failed. Train smashed through the buffers, careered across the station concourse, broke the station wall. It remained as is for four days, 1895.[1563x2048] Check this blog!

A 1938 Mercedes Benz was sent to the King of Nepal Truibhuvan By Adolf Hitler. The car was carried to the Capital City as seen since there wasn't much road in the country, 1940 [474x318] Check this blog!

This is a picture of an ooid grainstone, which has been stained so that calcite shows red (taken under 4x). The point of interest here is the beautiful porcellaneous foram in the upper right. The white splotches in it are chalcedony replacement. The ooids are undergoing internal dissolution, which is why they show blue voids inside; because of this the rock has abundant secondary porosity. The lower portion of the slide contains several deformed ooids, and a fracture with clear movement on it cuts across the mid to lower right side. (via katsuhiro - Picasa Web Albums)