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Autobiographical Trace Fossils

  • Ilana Halperin (author)
Chapter of: Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life(pp. 154–158)

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TitleAutobiographical Trace Fossils
ContributorIlana Halperin (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0014.1.25
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/making-the-geologic-now/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightHalperin, Ilana
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2012-12-04
Long abstractEphemeral islands, petrified raindrops, volcanic dust from Pompeii, a shared birthday with a volcano. Certain geological processes have a way of evoking a more personal response to the idea of geological time. What does a time span of 300,000,000 years actually mean? Physical Geology is an ongoing project which explores our desire to make corporeal contact with geo-logical phenomena.While conducting research as an Alchemy Fellow at the Manchester Museum, in the “oddi-ties drawer” of the geology department I came across a fine collection of lava medallions from Mount Vesuvius, magma pressed between forged steel plates to form an imprint (imagine a waffle iron that uses lava as batter). In the same drawer, a small stone relief sculpture ap-peared to be carved out of pure white alabaster. In fact, it was a limestone cast created via the same process that forms stalactites in a cave.
Page rangepp. 154–158
Print length5 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)