Gaps in knowledge.
Gaps in knowledge.
Everyone knows some things and doesn't know others, and some things are in a gray area between knowledge and ignorance. I can say for myself that mineralogy isn't my strongest suit, but when it comes to it, I know some things and don't know others, preferring in any case to say that it's a gap in my knowledge, something I wouldn't mind filling with all my seed.
There are stones that I immediately recognize just by looking at them. For example, as a child, I could easily identify quartzite, jasper, and other stones, but now I can maybe distinguish basalt from granite and marble, or labradorite from flint, but it's such a tiny bit of what I sometimes find that I can't even describe what I'm holding in my hands, it's hard to call it knowledge.
When I stumble across a stone in an open field or meadow, my first thought is of a meteorite, but the fracture of the stone resembles something else, suggesting the presence of sedimentary rocks, meaning there's no point in talking about an alien.
But it's still interesting to speculate how such a stone could have ended up so far from people, in the middle of peat bogs, where there's no other exposure to solid rock.
Of course, one could assume that the stone was dropped by a passing penguin; they sometimes barter stones with their relatives, but penguins don't fly, and there certainly aren't any within tens of thousands of kilometers of this place... although, perhaps it escaped from the zoo? :)
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| Category: | Art, Photography, digital art. |
| Tools: | Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX300 |
| Location: | Ukraine |
| Author: | Author @barski. In my publications you will see only my author's works. |