http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/eldorado-found-33-liberty-street-geologic-city-report-9/ FOP: where the human and geologic converge. Tue, 14 May 2013 00:35:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/eldorado-found-33-liberty-street-geologic-city-report-9/#comment-444 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:13:12 +0000 http://fopnews.wordpress.com/?p=1482#comment-444 [...] City reports can be read here: intro, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 [...]

]]> http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/eldorado-found-33-liberty-street-geologic-city-report-9/#comment-318 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:13:19 +0000 http://fopnews.wordpress.com/?p=1482#comment-318 [...] produced thusfar, including reports on the use of trisassic sandstone in Park slope brownstones, the materiality of the Federal Reserve Bank and its precious holdings, the designed interaction between humans and glacial schist in Central [...]

]]> http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/eldorado-found-33-liberty-street-geologic-city-report-9/#comment-291 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:04:43 +0000 http://fopnews.wordpress.com/?p=1482#comment-291 [...] . Full Geologic City field reports can be read on the Friends of the Pleistocene blog: Introduction 1. Pre-Earthian New York City: Inwood Hill and Fort Tryon Park 2. Forces Beyond Time: Shinran Statue 3. Staten Island’s Tainted Edge: 2377-2387 Richmond Terrace 4. Stepping into Time: Rock Stairs 5. A Portal into the Present: Newtown Creek Nature Walk 6. Monument to the Miocene: Rock Salt Warehouse 7. From the Top of the Heap: Freshkills Park 8. Urban Infrastructure as Geologic Material in Motion 9. El Dorado Found: 33 Liberty Street [...]

]]> http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/eldorado-found-33-liberty-street-geologic-city-report-9/#comment-286 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:50:59 +0000 http://fopnews.wordpress.com/?p=1482#comment-286 [...] Manaugh points us towards this great post about touring the New York Federal Reserve Bank’s gold vaults. Essential reading for [...]

]]> http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/eldorado-found-33-liberty-street-geologic-city-report-9/#comment-284 Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:01:43 +0000 http://fopnews.wordpress.com/?p=1482#comment-284 [...] ELDORADO FOUND: 33 Liberty Street (Geologic City Report #9) « Friends of the Pleistocene [...]

]]> http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/eldorado-found-33-liberty-street-geologic-city-report-9/#comment-277 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:47:28 +0000 http://fopnews.wordpress.com/?p=1482#comment-277 Hi Gabriel,
Thanks for the great links, fascinating!
cheers,
FOP

]]> http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/eldorado-found-33-liberty-street-geologic-city-report-9/#comment-276 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:37:54 +0000 http://fopnews.wordpress.com/?p=1482#comment-276 Oh and even beyond that, the story in NPR links to a 1991 Milton Friedman paper comparing this island’s peculiar methods of use of its stone money to New York’s Federal Reserve Bank transferring money to the Bank of France in 1932 by earmarking the gold in its vaults. Awesome.
http://hoohila.stanford.edu/workingpapers/getWorkingPaper.php?filename=E-91-3.pdf

]]> http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/eldorado-found-33-liberty-street-geologic-city-report-9/#comment-275 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:29:52 +0000 http://fopnews.wordpress.com/?p=1482#comment-275 Hi guys and gals,
Great report!
Saw this article about stone money that I thought you might enjoy, as it is also at the intersection of geology and money… http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/12/10/131934618/the-island-of-stone-money?sc=fb&cc=fp

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