Diabase Dikes on the Schoodic Peninsula, Maine
On the Schoodic Peninsula in Maine, diabase dikes intruded an older granite. Diabase is the equivalent of basalt that solidified underground. The diabase intruded upward from the mantle into fractures in the overlying granite. This occurred 195 million years ago and...
Reclaiming An Old Stone Barn
In late 2021, we started reclaiming the stone from this old barn in central Montana. The walls had collapsed in many places. The stonemasons that built this barn in the late 19th century collected the sandstone from the surrounding ranch. This sandstone is from the...
The Cotswolds
The Cotswolds are a region of beautiful stone villages scattered among undulating limestone hills about 100 kilometers west of London. Appearing much as they did hundreds of years ago, the stone villages of the Cotswolds provide a unique view of 17th- and 18th-century...
Travels in Tuscany
Tuscany has some of the most beautiful stone buildings in the world. The stone buildings in Tuscany were constructed over many centuries with many different kinds of stone, often with stone reclaimed from previous structures. Although there is no single Tuscan style...