The building stones are made up of mineralized microbes
Surely, there will be many people who think that Buckingham Palace is a refuge for some of Jurassic's last fossils. And the truth is that in this case, your intuition is not far off track. A new study by the Australian National University has revealed that the palace is built with fossils.
Research reveals that the material used to build the residence of the British royal family is the so-called political stones. They are formed by oolites, small carbonate spheres that give them the property of being very light (and, therefore, manageable), but also very resistant.
Until now, it was believed that the ooliths were formed by sand and dust sediments that had accumulated due to a snowball-like effect rolling down a slope. But Australian researchers have come to the conclusion that they are actually made up of concentric layers of cellular organisms, especially mineralized microbes. This discovery turns these stones into authentic organic fossils, whose antiquity dates back to two hundred years ago, in the Jurassic period.
It should also be remembered that this material has been partially used to construct other emblematic buildings such as the Pentagon or the Empire State Building.
