Field Notes: May 30, 2026 Location: former clay pit near Laa an der Thaya Encounter Summary: Surface, concealing structure... The former clay pit near Laa is considered the type locality of the Laa Formation. Yet arriving there feels strangely paradoxical. The pit is no longer a pit. Water has filled the excavation; the exposed walls that once revealed the sediments are hidden beneath a lake. The reference remains, while the exposure has disappeared. We followed a narrow path

Return to the Laa Formation near Mailberg, examining seasonal shifts from mud to dust, Studio continuation of fieldwork, exploring sediment, salt crystallization, and process-based transformations across scales.

Field Notes: February 13, 2026 Location: Quarry south of Buchberg summit, Weinviertel Encounter Summary: The approach began in mud before it became geology. Recent rain and thaw had dissolved the ground into a thick, adhesive mass, each step accumulating weight. The path led through a fenced enclosure—Mufflons somewhere unseen, the suggestion of wild boar—over a narrow crossing and onto a forest track that no longer held its form. The substrate announced itself immediately: c

Geschichte der Versteinerung von Schlamm

Field Notes: December 20, 2025 Location: Mailberg vicinity, Lower Austria The Laa-Formation revealed itself today in the quiet act of rolling. I pressed handfuls of the mixed sand-and-silt layers, shaping them into small, dense spheres that held together with surprising cohesion. Some were smooth and firm, others softer, tending toward collapse under the gentlest touch. Each ball was a miniature record of the river and storm currents that once transported these grains, a tact

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