Detail of a photo: Glacier with curved grey stripes flowing down a valley from snowy, rocky peaks under a blue sky with white clouds, beside a gravel path and a wooden fenced viewpoint.
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The Mysteries of Maqarin

The Mysteries of Maqarin

We all know that cement is a man-made substance and therefore cement is always synthetic right? Wrong! In the unusual case of Maqarin, Jordan the stars aligned to produce natural cement and many of the “synthetic” minerals found therein. The Maqarin site has been the subject of an intense geological investigation by a consortium of …[Read More]