Jakarta –
A well called Mother Shipton in Knaresborough, England, can turn various objects into stone. Not mystical, this happened due to the peculiarities of the local geology.
Mother Shipton’s name was inspired by a character from local myths and legends who was said to have been born in a nearby cave, now called Mother Shipton’s Cave in 1488. She was known as a witch and fortuneteller, and is sometimes referred to as Yorkshire’s Nostradamus.
The Mother Shipton well’s water originates about a mile underground, through a body of rock called an aquifer, where minerals are dissolved.
“The water contains iron, zinc, magnesium, aluminum, calcium carbonate,” said Park Assistant at Mother Shipton Cave, John Wynne, to Youtuber Tom Scott in 2021, quoted from IFL Science.
It takes varying amounts of time for an object to turn into stone in this well, for example a teddy bear takes three months, while non-porous objects take two years.
Before it was bought and maintained by Sir Charles Slingsby in 1630 which was later turned into a tourist attraction, people exaggerated stories about this well.
“Superstitious people would find animal skeletons, leaves, turning into stone, and they really thought people could turn into stone too,” Wynne said.
A 2013 paper refers to an 1896 report that claimed that a liter of water from this well weighs 0.65 grams, or 0.023 ounces more than a liter of ordinary water, which is about 1140 milligrams per liter (0.18 ounces per gallon). ) dissolved solids.
The paper also notes that sulphate- and carbonate-rich water also supports the deposition of calcareous tuffs. The best example is the tufa filter of the Dropping Well in Knaresborough, England.
Tuff is a type of limestone. Tuff forms when carbonates dissolved in water leave the solution and solidify, a process called precipitation. This is triggered by some of the water evaporating, increasing the concentration of the remaining carbonates.
Well, these petrified wells are made of tuff and a harder type of sedimentary rock called travertine, which is also made of calcium carbonate, and it is this calcium carbonate that is the secret behind this petrification phenomenon. In fact, the front of the well needs to be scraped regularly to prevent overhangs from forming from mineral buildup.
Many strange and amazing objects that have been coated with calcium carbonate in the well. These items range from a shoe from Queen Mary left in 1923, a toy left behind by actor Warwick Davis, to a top-hat from 1853 that is now just a lump of rock.
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