The traveler sees glaciers and valleys, forests and waterfalls, rivers, lakes, gorges and viaducts, vineyards, a quartz quarry, picture-postcard hamlets and towns, medieval castles and churches, scenes of wild beauty and pastoral serenity, a tableau of Swiss geography, history, culture -- and achievement.
Among the bones lining the walls of the 2km-long (1.2-mile) tunnels – only a small part of a network of abandoned underground quarries – are pictures and quotes about mortality.
THERE are 21 monster lorries at the Dangote Cement quarry in Obajana (pictured), a three-hour drive from Abuja, Nigeria's capital.
I cried when I saw the picture of the quarry where Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was played, on the site of the Nazis' death camp at Mauthausen, Austria.
Subconsciously, the researchers who look for sentience beyond Earth in the effort known as Seti (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), make a similar mental picture of their quarry.
On January 25th New Horizons, another American spacecraft, which was launched a few months before the reclassification, snapped its first pictures of its quarry (sadly unavailable as The Economist went to press).
"Quarry, Lumberton" (1918) is a magnificent picture, although a layer of protective glass dulls the delicate effects of late afternoon light captured in the work.
Now AIDS researchers have a fine-grained picture of a potential quarry: an HIV coat protein that helps the virus fuse with host cells.
Walcott's Quarry : This is the site where Charles Walcott (pictured at left) first discovered fossils of the Burgess Shale.
This study, based on detailed field observations at the mentioned quarries followed by analysis, presents an amalgamated picture of weathering zones in granitic profiles of a tropical region like Malaysia.
The series, completed over a decade, consists of pictures of quarries and processing plants that produce the only indigenous stone available in Japan for urban building.
