tell me if there are any existing buildings in the world in which basalt is used as construction material?
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http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/BS/BS-Loa.html\n\nA Basalt building in Loa, Utah\n\nhttp://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/BS/BS-Arco.html\n\nGym in Arco, Idaho
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I'v heard about buildings being put on ball bearings so that the building will remain stable while the earth rocks beneith it. I'v seen a few specials on the Discovery Channel about it. Apparently the technology was pioneered in Japan. It makes sense since Japan has A LOT of earthquakes.
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You'd be supprised. Concrete, glass steel just like you probably do right there. Africa has towns streets skyscrapers movie theatres everything you have right there but we love our culture here and also have our traditional structures here. Were you asking the western kind houses or traditional? I could help u - im born and brought up in africa but have visited the western world loads of times.
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Earth ?\n\nPlease look over the following site,\none of the best sites about 'earthen buildings'\n\nhttp://www.earth-auroville.com/
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It's widely believed in the scientific community that the earth has a liquid mantle (that's where magma/lava comes from) and a solid super-hot iron core.  Good luck digging through that.
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I believe there are, but they are far and few between. We'll refer to those one's as diamonds. The other more common species we'll refer to as coal, there's lots of that and it's only good for burning =)\n\nGood luck in your search.
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I believe all the naturally occurring elements found on earth can be found on other planets, for example samples from the surface of mars show that it is composed of basalt and granite, these are igneous rocks (come from volcanoes) that are very common on earth. Elements like iron, silicon, carbon, and  hyrogen are found in a variety of forms
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyry_(geology)
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No, there is a fixed amount of iron on the planet.  It is an element.\n\nA renewable resource would be one that you can use and then produce more of like trees, crops, clean water etc...
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Go to this link..there is a table there where you can see all the tallest building recorded.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_tallest_structures\n\nhope this helps :)
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Jericho\n\n"Discovered and excavated by Kathleen Kenyon in her Trench I, the Neolithic tower was built and destroyed in Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, which Kenyon dated to 8000-7000 B.C.  The 8m diameter tower stands 8m tall and was connected on the inside of a 4m thick wall.  \n\nOn the basis of this discovery, archaeologists have claimed that Jericho is the "oldest city in the world."
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They were probably invented sometime during the Iron Age. I.e. at a time when there were tools available to cut them etc.\nConstruction materials vary according to availability of materials. So, in London for example, clay was abundant so most houses are made of bricks. New Zealand houses are generally made of timber etc.\nSo cinder blocks would be probably something you would have found in volcanic areas.\nThe modern cinder blocks would have to be invented after the development of coal fired power stations.
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1) Tallest building on planet Earth...currently under construction is the Burj Dubai in the United Arab Emirates\n2) Currently under construction, Union Square Phase 7 in Hong Kong will be the tallest building in Hong Kong, but not Asia.  The tallest building in Asia will be the proposed International Business Center in Seoul, S. Korea at 1,903 ft.\n3) This would have to be the Burj Dubai in Dubai,UAE, which is currently under construction.\n4)  Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, also known as the Pearl Bridge, with a span of 1,991 meters.\n5)  Japan\n6)  Millau Viaduct in France
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Hi, I live in Mexico and have a lot of very nice furniture made from bamboo.  In Hong kong they use bamboo for scaffolding when they build new skyscrapers instead of using wood or steel.  If you do a web search and enter,"bamboo, products, you will see a list of many types of products from bamboo.
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plate boundries?  \n\nMountains, volcanos, earthquakes, vents, hot springs.
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igneous extrusive basalt
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i've never heard of one.  you can make them from wingbones, slate, wood, etc.