Plant Progress

It took about five or six days for my plant to sprout. These pictures show it's process since it's sprouted to about a week after. I've watered it about every day and it is sitting on a table in front of a window so that it gets some sunlight. 

Each day my plant gets longer and longer and I think that it is beginning to become too long for my small styrofoam cup. There have been no sprouting of a flower, but the stem is significantly longer than before (as you can see) and has two to three leaves at the top. 

Cruz Plaza

This project of reconstruction and creating the Cruz plaza will transform the appearance of the central part of Mercer's Macon campus from the University Center to the historic Quad and from Greek Village past Tarver Library. The plaza will include new seating and gathering areas, a prominent water feature and major landscaping improvements. It will incorporate major new gateways to the interior of campus around Tarver Library, the University Center and Connell Student Center, incorporating the current Porter Patch and W.G. Lee Park.

Construction is still in progress and the plaza is expected to be finished by Aug. 2013. During all of this construction, classes are still taking place and students are still living on campus. This area of campus is still being used, so workers must consider the safety of the students, faculty and others using this area and make the necessary adjustments to ensure safety for all of those on Mercer's campus. They also must consider the resources that are being used such as water and gas and how it may affect the other buildings around them. Erosion should be considered as well for long term purposes. Construction plans should be altered to avoid erosion so that the plaza can last for as long as possible without any complications. 

Rocks

Granite:

Granite is a common type of igneous rock which is granular in texture. Granites can be pink to gray in colo depending on their chemistry and mineralogy. Granites sometimes occur in circular depressions surrounded by a range of hills, formed by the metamorphic aureole or hornfels. Granite is usually found in the continental plates of the Earth's crust. It is nearly always massive, hard and tough, and therefore it has gained widespread use as a construction stone. 

Limestone:

Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate. Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera. Limestone makes up about 10% of the total volume of all sedimentary rocks. Limestone has numerous uses: building material, aggregate for the base of roads, white pigment or filler in products such as toothpaste or paints, and chemical feedstock. 

Feldspar:

Feldspars are a group of rock-forming tectosilicate minerals which make up as much as 60% of the Earth's crust. Feldspars crystallize from magma in both intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks, as veins, and are also present in many types of metamorphic rock. Feldspars are also found in many types of sedimentary rock. 

Schists:

Schists constitute a group of medium-grade metamorphic rocks, chiefly notable for the preponderance of lamellar minerals such as micas, chlorite, talc, hornblende, graphite, and others. Schist contains more than 50% platy and elongated minerals, often finely interleaved with quartz and feldspar. Most schists have been derived from clays and muds which have passed through a series of metamorphic processes involving the production of shales, slates and phyllites.