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Building Stone Walls - Weathering the Stone

 

This stone will tarnish quickly, being surrounded by boggy, acidic water, and because the birds like to sit on it and add their own organic matter. The weathering of stone is about acid, organic matter, twater, and time.

To give fresh stone that time-tarnished look (or to learn something about bio-geo-chemistry, the SWI encourages you to link to Secret Recipe.

 

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