Growing, being mobile, and having offspring are only a few of the traits that define living things as “living.” Everyone is aware that since stones are nonliving objects, neither of these actions should be possible for them. However, some weird Stones have the ability to “grow and move” close to the village of Costesti in Romania.
Romania, a land of ancient myths, dense forests, and vibrant history, also shelters one of the world’s most baffling geological enigmas: the Trovants or “living stones.” At first glance, these stones might seem ordinary, but they possess a unique and mysterious ability to grow, move, and even reproduce. Let’s unravel the enigma of these sentient-seeming stones and explore the scientific theories that attempt to explain their existence.
Trovants are a unique and kind of strange geological formation. They look weird, as if cement is oozing from them. Personally, I think they look like a cross between a mushroom and a rock.
Trovants are so strange looking, and so cool and unique
There were few studies about origin of these growing stones of Romania, and there are many hypothesis, some of them even fantastical. According to International Geological Congress conducted in Oslo 2008, these “Trovanti” were improperly considered as “sandstone concretions”. The study of these trovants was started in the Carpathians area from about 1883 (Cobalcescu) and by 1900 Koch gave his opinions about their origin. It was found that there was no mineralogical difference between these pseudoconcretions and the surrounding sands, with no distinct nucleus inside them, and their cement is often carbonate-type.
When there is unusually heavy rainfall in the areas trovants are found, they tend to absorb minerals in the rain. Along with the formation of the sand and sandstone deposits already present as the shell of the rock, a chemical reaction begins putting immense pressure on the inside of the trovant.
This pressure from a chemical reaction expands the trovant outwards from its core towards its outer crust, making the rock itself grow. On the surface of the rocks, small deposits are pushed outwards adding to the rockface, leading to their name “the growing stones.”
Why do these rocks keep growing? As you’ve already read, calcium carbonate-rich water plays a crucial role in the formation of trovants and is also necessary for the rock to grow when exposed to rains..…..See More
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