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Synchrotron X-ray Microdiffraction and Fluorescence Imaging of Mineral and Rock Samples
Published on: June 19, 2018
Rock Outcropping, Kaliakra Peninsula, Black Sea, Bulgaria
1HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital, Orange Park, Florida.
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Description This photo, taken in June 2024 at the Northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, captures our fleeting time against that of ocean and rocks. Cape Kaliakra ("Beautiful Headland") has been fought over by various tribes and groups across centuries. Succession included the Dacians, Greeks, Ottoman Turks, the Russian Navy, and in the last century, the communist government of Bulgaria. Now a nature reserve, dolphins play off the coast and cormorants seek its updrafts. Cape Kaliakra sits on the Via Pontica, an ancient Greek road and major bird migration route from Africa into Eastern and Northern Europe. Its beauty and its importance in controlling the shoreline propelled men to capture it as a status and military vantage point, as if the awe and wonder it engenders could ever be fully owned.
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