Sciacca Mystery the End pt.V

From the sea, in 15 years of work, non continuous as we have seen, well over 14 million kg of coral were extracted! An unimaginable amount for the human mind to grasp. But how much is still there, in the sea? And how much is buried underneath the lava that must have spewed out of the mouths of these...

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Sciacca Mystery the End pt.IV

After the euphoria, the joy, the satisfaction, I realized that four thousand years was too... little! Things didn’t quite match up! I decided to make one final attempt. I took another piece of coral from Sciacca, blackened and full of holes and sent it to CEDAD. On the following page I submit the...

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Sciacca Mystery the End pt.III

Radiocarbon tests, for those who may not be aware, determine the date of a body, object or material. So far the tests on the Sciacca samples had proven that this coral had been, how I can say it, a victim of volcanic phenomena. But we already knew this: the entire area we are talking about is full...

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Sciacca Mystery the End pt.II

  A university professor friend of mine came to my aid by telling me that in the U.S., there was a certain Professor Robert Bodnar at Virginia Tech University, a geochemist, and that he was conducting some very interesting experiments using highly advanced instruments. An American! Talk about...

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Sciacca Mystery the End pt I

I don’t know if the same thing happens to you. But sometimes you meet someone and are immediately attracted, someone you can talk with, someone who understands your dreams and ideas and with whom you feel completely at ease. Persons on the same wave length as you, who are endowed with the greatest...

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Coral Mystery pt X Biology br Dott.ssa Margherita Superchi

Coral Reproduction The genital organs of coral are located inside the polyps and they have different genders in the sense that there are both male and female colonies. In some cases we also noted the presence of hermaphrodite colonies, created by  the fusion of two colonies. The maturing of the...

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Coral Mystery pt IX Biology by Dott.ssa Margherita Superchi

They also studied the “foods” preferred by the polyp colonies. And do you know what they like to eat? Shrimp! Naturally, tiny, microscopic shrimp contained in the plankton! Today we can say that we know much more. But let’s get back to the structure of the polyp. The polyp is the structural unit of...

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