Top of the Rocks S01E03 · Sandstone

Overview

There’s a rock that crystallizes the beauty of the world more than any other. It’s sandstone. This rock, rich of the grains of sands that compose it, both porous and resistant, develops almost organics ties to the living and especially Animals and Men. We will begin our journey with its birth: on a beach in the south of England as it is from sand that sandstone is born. To better understand what links us to it, we will follow a geologist in the most sumptuous settings of the American West. In France and India, we will meet the last builders who extract and cut stones following ancestral methods. In Namibia, we will measure the influence of sandstone’s landscapes on wildlife. among the best in the world.

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