Stones and plants

In the mountains of the Czech Republic in beds of iron ore can be seen the so-called "iron flowers. Before you think that this is the fossilized plants and moss that grew on a stone plate. Such plants often have a kind of branched snowy mass of delicate wreath of thin stems that meander and intertwine in brittle building such a "flower" is very similar to grown up in normal plant, but nothing to do with the plants they have not. These flowers grow from aqueous solution in the iron mines. But in beds of iron ore can grow not only flowers but also the branches of fabulous trees. These formations are due to its similarity with the plant are called dendrites - "tree", and they very often can be found in the splitting of rocks. Kolesh, kolesh - and suddenly emerges between two layers of thin figure tender twigs - yellow, red or black. Often they come in several colors at once, as if growing from one root, or from any one edge. Ice stems rarely stand alone. Usually several stalks fused together in a column and pick up small pebbles pebbles on the ground. Under the larger stones, up to 12-15 centimeters in diameter, crystals do not coalesce into groups, and are a solid border around the edges of the stone. Apparently in growing needles do not have enough strength to lift a stone from the ground and they raise it with only one edge. Often, such a phenomenon occurs in Japan. There's an ice called simobasira ", which translated means" sticks of frost. " Small, thin, seemingly insignificant brand of ice together, together, make a significant work of gradual movement of the pebbles. Raising them on their heads, melting crystals in the morning on a slightly bent towards the sun. Pebbles did not collapse even at the place where it picked up the ice. So little by little, day by day, crystals of sorting the soil in which they grow. They are raising part of the soil and move them to the clay surface areas to the east. Why are more ice formed these stalks? This question has many answers, but none of them did not fully describe this strange but beautiful thing. This is a very special mineral growth takes place, or in thin cracks between layers of rock, or even nevpolne petrified environment siderogenous substances, which suddenly got glandular solutions. Some scientists have managed with remarkable skill to grow in the laboratory of such a plant: placing a gelatin or adhesive substance drip whether foreign plants. Something similar can see you and me, dripping milk on the surface poluzastyvshego jelly. In India, found that have already become famous so-called "moss agates." They look like twigs brown, green and red materials. These tumors form a complex and intricate "forest", overgrown grass, shrubs and trees. These growths are very strongly reminiscent of quaint thickets of the seabed. How often these entities recognized for once-existing plants. How many erroneous conclusions have been made even great scholars. Only in the second half of the twentieth century, when the exact experiment was repeated these formations in the laboratory, triumphing their proper explanation. Of course, this does not mean that there is no real fossilized plants - trees, leaves, roots or fruit, a substance which has been gradually and slowly replaced by mineral solution. But in the case of metallic colors of nature was no less inventive.