boutoo
having dreams about rocks
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Post by boutoo on Sept 18, 2015 11:12:18 GMT -5
Ok, here's a strange small addition to the clay eating thing for you gents... My Mum's Irish & she eats chalk when she gets indigestion....she actually taught me that all the things you can buy in shops are just chalk with mint flavouring, so why waste money? Kent is chock full of kaolin clay, but London is brown....I think it's dirty red or perhaps a mix of terracota & kaolin? Am also pretty sure UK kitty litter is quarried from Kent Cool vids hee hee Maybe I'll get to Georgia one day? Hopefully before a certain govt shuts down every still in existence }
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jamesp
Cave Dweller
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Post by jamesp on Sept 18, 2015 11:41:00 GMT -5
What is chalk ? Some chalk is magnesium carbonate. "The Chalk Group is a European stratigraphic unit deposited during the late Cretaceous Period. It forms the famous White Cliffs of Dover in Kent, England, as well as their counterparts of the Cap Blanc Nez on the other side of the Dover Strait. The Champagne region of France is mostly underlain by chalk deposits, which contain artificial caves used for wine storage. Some of the highest chalk cliffs in the world occur at Jasmund National Park in Germany and at Møns Klint in Denmark - both once formed a single island. Formation[edit] Ninety million years ago what is now the chalk downland of Northern Europe was ooze accumulating at the bottom of a great sea. Chalk was one of the earliest rocks made up of sub-microscopic particles to be studied under the electron microscope, when it was found to be composed almost entirely of coccoliths. Their shells were made of calcite extracted from the rich sea-water. As they died a huge thickness gradually built up over eons and, through the weight of overlying sediments, eventually became consolidated into rock. Later earth movements related to the formation of the Alps raised these former sea-floor deposits above sea level." Not far from chalk Welcome anytime boutoo, visitors sleep here, door is open
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boutoo
having dreams about rocks
Member since August 2015
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Post by boutoo on Sept 18, 2015 12:30:09 GMT -5
Errrrrr good question...I think some is magnesium & some is clay, but all has plankton in it because what you just said
Gem is jealous now & wants to make friends with all 5 of your babies ha ha (she's a border collie/lab cross & completely insane!!)
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