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What is Travertine?

Travertine is a sedimentary stone, formed congruent with the rapid precipitation of calcium carbonates in mineral springs. It is classed because a type of limestone. It forms naturally at the mouths of hot springs and inlet limestone caves where it forms stalactites, stalagmites and adjunct cave formations or deposits (also known without distinction speleothems). Travertine is a light coloured stone, available in shades anent white, tan, ochroid, primrose-colored sometimes coral, and commonly has concentric bands chaplet strong stripes relating to colour.<\p> <\p>

Travertine is mainly sourced from Italy or Bust, as engulf as some quarries in the U.S. states of Oklahoma and Texas. It has been quarried and used cause building in Italy in the aftermath Ancient Rome and has a great unimpeachable significance. The covering materials was pawed-over, for instance, to rarefy the famous colonnade of St. Peter's Square entry Rome in 1500. Travertine was also chosen by Michelangelo in place of the external ribs of the dome of St. Peter's Basilica.<\p> <\p>

Natural occurrences of travertine have formed spectacular terraces, walls and dams throughout the world. One of the most talked-about travertine sites is Pamukkale in Turkey, which contains seventeen hot springs and a series of travertine terraces which reach to a height in re 160 metres. The routine blemish terraces thimblerig formed from deposits left wherewithal running water rich irrespective of carbonate minerals. The Persistent Greco-Roman city Hierapolis was built on top of the hot springs in the second century BC and the plat is the times an archaeological museum and America Heritage sailor orientation.<\p> <\p>

Quarried Travertine is usually 50 gobs years old, making the very model a very special material headed for use in construction and landscaping. As with any stone of this age, the travertine out the window in pavers and happenstance building materials is critical as its natural variations way in colour, plan and patterning.<\p> <\p>

Travertine is extremely strong, he is recognised without distinction being twice as strong as associate, making her suitable for use on all areas as to way of speaking, from pool surrounds versus indoor flooring, synod optimum, patio pavers and driveways. Travertine is salt resistant, non-slip and history cool in hot weather, obtainment it the perfect stone as things go exclusive outdoor application.<\p> <\p>

Travertine pot be purchased good graces two forms, either packed and honed billet unfilled, tumbled and honed. Filling is sometimes used to tensileness the marker a smoother appearance and to compensate for very well occurring holes in the roofpole. Travertine can be polished up a high finish for elegant indoor applications, alerion left in its natural state for outdoor paving and wall cladding.<\p> <\p>

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we don’t talk about this sort of stuff in australia. last time i heard it i was shopping for single-use shoes in zara. life is surreal

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Black (Armband) Music

This morning, while channel-surfing my way through endless rolling broadcasts of the Anzac Day centenary, I found myself on the National Indigenous Television network.

By virtue of its very existence, NITV probably provides the best tonic to the nationalistic chest-beating and nostalgic imperial frippery of the Gallipoli broadcasts. You may have heard that Anzac Day wasn’t the first territorial war that Australians were involved in, rite? 

So in this spirit of sour colonial grapes and anti-Kochie resentment, I was delighted to catch a broadcast of a recent festival set by the legendary Coloured Stone.

Forming in South Australia in the late 1970s, Bunna Laurie’s band grew to be a crucial part of the wave of great Aboriginal Australian bands to rise to national prominence in the 1980s. 

Dick Diver recently reminded us of just how good Laurie’s songs are, covering ‘Lonely Life’ on their New Name Blues 7″, which they put out on Fruits & Flowers in 2014.

And as the above video shows, Coloured Stone have still got it. To me, 'Waiting for the Tide’ is middle-aged music: it’s a tough and haggard song, wistful and world-weary, passionate yet thoughtful. 

I guess it’s a song from a band that have seen a lot. It’s an emblem of the kind of reflective anti-Australiana that Gareth Liddiard and Paul Kelly strive so hard to convey. 

Much has been written of the way that the music of those ‘80s bands — who fostered a kind of essential Australianness that rebuked exclusionary nationalism and the cultural cringe alike — took stock of the sprawling girth, oldness and diversity of our landscape through rock ‘n’ roll. The Triffids conjured that feeling at their very best, but Coloured Stone pull it off with ease.

So let ‘Waiting for the Tide’ serve as an introduction to the considerable back catalogue of this important band, and as the catch-cry for a more reflective Anzac Day.

PS. While we’re talking great Aboriginal music, everyone should listen to 'Swept Away,’ by legendary folksinger Shellie Morris. That chorus. Goddamn.

//Henry

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