Sometimes the coincidences that happen in Barga can be startling. This evening there was yet another. Only a week or so ago we published an article about the fossils in the red marble floor of the Duomo. Most people living here had never noticed the ammonites under their feet as they walked in to the main door of the Duomo. So who came walking across that red marble floor today ? An eminent professor of Paleobiology/Sedimentology from the States here in the area researching local stone for evidence of the some of the patterns and causes of the end-Triassic mass extinction, one of the five largest throughout the history of life. Christopher A Roberts PhD took 10 minutes out of his busy schedule to talk with us about his work here in the area. His research site can be seen here
Click on the link below to listen to what he had to say about the red marble (which turns out to be limestone and not marble)
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look what arrived on my desk this afternoon – a big thank you to Dr. Christopher A Roberts