Coquina in the Raw
by Joseph Desiderio
Title
Coquina in the Raw
Artist
Joseph Desiderio
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photo
Description
Oyster shells found in great abundance at The Colonial Quarter in St Augustine, FL. Coquina (/koʊˈkiːnə/) is a sedimentary rock that is composed either wholly or almost entirely of the transported, abraded, and mechanically-sorted fragments of the shells of molluscs, trilobites, brachiopods, or other invertebrates. The term coquina comes from the Spanish word for "cockle" and "shellfish". Occasionally quarried or mined and used as a building stone in Florida for over 400 years, coquina forms the walls of the Castillo de San Marcos in Saint Augustine, Florida. The stone makes a very good material for forts, particularly those built during the period of heavy cannon use. Because of coquina's softness, cannonballs would sink into, rather than shatter or puncture, the walls of the Castillo de San Marcos. The first Saint Augustine Lighthouse was also built of coquina.
Uploaded
June 25th, 2018
Statistics
Viewed 121 Times - Last Visitor from Cornwall, ON - Canada on 03/05/2024 at 4:14 AM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet
Comments
There are no comments for Coquina in the Raw. Click here to post the first comment.