Comments on: The advantages and disadvantages of building your city on clay http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2010/08/04/the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-building-your-city-on-clay/ A World to Explore Thu, 23 May 2013 20:20:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mark Wilson http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2010/08/04/the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-building-your-city-on-clay/comment-page-1/#comment-4778 Mark Wilson Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:46:07 +0000 http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/?p=2287#comment-4778 I heard on this trip that it is sand spread out on clay for the old-town hill, but read nothing on it. Whatever it is, it hasn’t been very stable!

]]> By: effjot http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2010/08/04/the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-building-your-city-on-clay/comment-page-1/#comment-4777 effjot Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:15:32 +0000 http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/?p=2287#comment-4777 It’s sad that there is basically nothing about the geology of Lübeck available on the internet. Do you know what the old-town hill consists of? Is it also clay (or till), or sand? I recall a friend in Lübeck speaking of the town being basically a pile of sand.

]]> By: Mark Wilson http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2010/08/04/the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-building-your-city-on-clay/comment-page-1/#comment-4776 Mark Wilson Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:23:13 +0000 http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/?p=2287#comment-4776 Thanks for the comment, effjot. I just added “commemorative” to the text about the coin. Good to talk to another geologist blogger!

]]> By: effjot http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2010/08/04/the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-building-your-city-on-clay/comment-page-1/#comment-4774 effjot Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:38:42 +0000 http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/?p=2287#comment-4774 Lübeck is indeed looking funny in this regard. Especially from a little distance, you can “appreciate” all those towers, each askew to the others. Some church tower (I think it’s the Cathedral) shows some noticable bulge at one side, where they had compensated during building for the already tilting tower.

By the way, the Holstentor is not generally on 2 Euro coins (only on a commemoratice coin) But it was on the old 50 DM note, although completly even. I was very surprised when I saw the real thing, with it’s sagging middle, for the first time…

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