The railways transported thousands of tons of bones to the Michigan Carbon Works, in Detroit, which produced four thousand tons of bone ash and five thousand tons of bone black in one year.
At least 3 ½ tons of bones were extracted from the site, the city government said.
Measuring tons of bones can be tedious, Faine says, but "you can tell the species, the size of the animal, the size of the population, what they are eating, if they were healthy, or what they used the animals for".
In chapter five, Arthur says he would like to blow up Nottingham Castle, by planting "a thousand tons of bone-dry TNT in the tunnel called Mortimer's Hole".
The glitches included the logistics of importing 20 tons of bone powder and finding enough room for the huge, powder-dispersing machine in the performance space, a run-down former railway depot.
Now government health workers face the daunting task of tracking down all 145 tons of bone meal that may have been contaminated by the cow from the roadside farm in Shiroi, as well as determining the fates of all the other cows that were born with the infected cow on Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island.
What the French have learned is indeed alarming: that many thousands of tons of bone meal -- the repulsive feed made of ground-up animals -- from possibly infected English cattle were imported into France for more than two years after France embargoed British beef.
In the park's Victoria Fossil Cave, a rich deposit of fossil bones was discovered in 1969; the fossil chamber is estimated to contain more than 5,000 tons of bone-laden sediment, including the remains of the giant diprotodon and some 100 other species, many of which are now extinct.
Excavations in 1909 23, under the direction of paleontologist Earl Douglass of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who discovered the site, removed 350 tons of dinosaur bones from the quarry.
As a conservator specializing in sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art since 1984, Lynda A. Zycherman, 61, has applied a preservationist's touch to sculpture composed of every conceivable material: marble, bronze, steel, textiles, chocolate and — once was enough — three tons of cow bones imported from Italy.
