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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Thursday must be travertine day

The Getty Center is clad in travertine, an Italian limestone deposited by hot springs in the Tivoli district near Rome.  It's a beautiful stone, with lots of interesting organic remains in it - debris from plants and animals that fell into the hot spring water and became petrified.  Just thought you should know that... see the photo on the left if you don't believe me.

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