The Mystery of Living Stones That Can ‘Give Birth’, Scientists Are Curious

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There is a group of stones that are considered ‘living’ stones that can ‘give birth’ in Romania. A group of such stones is known as the Trovants of Romania Read.

Check out the origins and interesting facts about Trovants that intrigue scientists below.

Interesting Facts about Trovants, a ‘Living’ Stone and Can ‘Give Birth’

The following are a series of interesting facts about the Trovants of Romania, which are known as living stones that can give birth.

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1. Amazing Geological Phenomenon

Reporting from Dailymail, the ‘living’ rocks in Romania actually come from the Earth, which were formed naturally through geological processes.

Trovants of Romania is a geological phenomenon discovered in the small village of Costesti, Romania. It is located about 80 km west of the capital Bucharest.

Reported by Geologyin, Trovants consists of a stone core with an outer shell of sand. It is said that after heavy rain small shapes will appear on the rocks. This is what makes these rocks nicknamed birthing stones or growing stones by the population.

The Trovant rocks are estimated to be up to six million years old. An interesting fact, when Trovant is cut it has a spherical and ellipsoidal ring that looks like a tree trunk.

3. Trovant form

Trovant’s shape is like a bubble stone with very varying sizes. Some are several meters in diameter, and some are as small as the size of a hand.

They are found in various shapes and sizes, ranging from spherical, ellipsoidal, even mushroom-like.

Most of the Trovant stone consists of a stone core, which is surrounded by a sand shell. As the name Trovants is a synonym of the German term “Sandsteinkonkretionen” which means cement sand.

4. Is it true that Trovant is a stone that can grow and move?

Trovant stones include unique mineral structures that mimic plant and mammal life. The growing rocks are thought to be identical, and even move like rocks sliding down the valley.

Trovants are thought to reproduce, starting from pebbles and growing at about two inches per millennium. Stones grow slowly in the presence of rainwater.

Minerals in rainwater form reactions that produce internal pressure. So, it seems as if the rocks can grow and reproduce.

Research on the Trovants of Romania

In fact, scientists still don’t fully understand how Trovant was formed.

There are many hypotheses about the Trovants of Romania. Some of them are even fantastical.

According to the International Geological Congress held in Oslo in 2008, “Trovanti” was incorrectly considered a sandstone concretion.

According to the congress hypothesis, the Trovants of Romania represent a diagenetic texture exhibiting paleodynamic (paleoseismic) conditions, corresponding to the specific compaction of sandy sediments with local solute content (mainly carbonates) accumulated in the sand.

During important seismic shocks and under the influence of internal cohesive forces, they tend to take a spherical shape. Gravitational forces, seismic shocks, solution cohesion forces, and adhesion forces between sand grains and liquid are believed to be involved in this process.

“Trovants do not just appear from the ground, they exist in collections of sand of different geological ages that reach natural outcrops or in sand mines,” said Dr Mircea Ticleanu from the Romanian Geological Institute, quoted from Mail Online, Friday (8/3/2024).

Of note, the hypothesis about the origin of the Trovant seismic is well supported by many laboratory experiments.

So, scientifically, the growth of Trovant stone in Romania is believed to have arisen when a chemical reaction occurred between layers of sediment and carbonate minerals in the presence of rainwater. Costeşti is not the only place where trovant stones have been found.

A study co-authored by Dr Ticleanu also described them as occurring throughout the Carpathian region of Romania.

Because it is called ‘living rock’ which appears to grow, making this site a tourist attraction there.

Although not alive in the scientific sense, locals and tourists often describe them as ‘alive’. The reason is, the way they grow and change over time.

In protecting this amazing geological creation, the “Muzeul Trovantilor” or Nature Reserve, in 2004 the Trovants Museum was developed in Valcea by the agency and is now protected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

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