Chapter 1340 1347. Seabed Glass (3)
After Ao Muyang swam in the water several times, he stopped and looked down at the seabed. He saw that the seabed in front of him was different from the surrounding area.
The seabed here is mostly muddy and sandy. It is very beautiful overall. The snow-white sea sand is endless. Clusters of seaweed grow every now and then. The seaweed floats in the water, like a water monster twisting its body.
This is different from the previous fishing grounds. In the past, the fishing grounds were surrounded by Brick Island. There were many reefs on the seabed, so it looked uneven. The color was either gray or yellow-brown, and the coral area was bright, which was very inconsistent.
He patrolled from the periphery of the fishing ground to the center. He was used to the flat sand on the seabed. When a piece of bulge appeared on the seabed in front of him, it attracted his attention.
At first glance, Lao Ao thought he saw some reefs, which was very common, but he looked a few more times and found that these reefs were not the case. The color was different. Some were red, some were yellow, and some were blue.
So he swam over and dived down. The pieces on the seabed were not reefs, but some opaque rough glass-like things.
He had never seen this thing before, so he touched it with his hand in confusion.
The touch was different from that of a reef. Although it was rough on the surface, it was much smoother than a stone after being touched. It was more like a large ice block with a polished surface.
Ao Muyang was a little curious. They were definitely not ice blocks, otherwise they would have melted long ago. What were they? It was almost like turbid glass.
These minerals had been washed by the ocean current for an unknown period of time. The appearance was oval. If they were not of different sizes and large differences, it would be easy for him to guess that they were dragon eggs.
Not recognizing the identity of these minerals, he found one the size of a watermelon and brought it out of the sea.
At this time, his position was a little far away from the fishing boat, so he had to wander around for a long time. Feeling that the time was almost up, he quickly dived to the side of the boat.
He held the watermelon-sized mineral in one hand and climbed up the ladder with the other hand. At this time, there was no one on the Big Dragon Head, it was empty.
After leaving the water, the ore appeared even clearer and more transparent, like a turbid gem, but compared to the uniform color of gems, the color transition in this ore was not good and the distribution was very scattered.
Seeing that there was no one on the boat, he temporarily put the ore on the bow and went back to the sea to patrol the fishing grounds.
When he returned to the boat in the evening, he saw that many people had also returned, including several people chatting around the strange ore on the bow.
Ao Muyang wiped his body hastily after getting on the boat. He asked, "Hey, does anyone know that thing? I found it on the seabed."
Xu Nan said excitedly, "Brother Hu knows it. He said it's seabed glass. Is there glass on the seabed? This ocean is so mysterious."
Ao Muyang shook his head. He didn't know. He looked at Lu Hu and asked, "Brother Hu, do you know this thing?"
Lu Hu said, "You fished it up from the bottom of the sea? That should be seabed glass, right?"
Ao Muyang then asked, "Is seabed glass valuable?"
Lu Hu smiled and said, "It's not valuable, but it's really rare, but it has no value - oh, don't say that, the value of seabed glass lies in its unknown nature, and there is no conclusion about how this thing came from."
"What seabed glass? When a ship was transporting glass, it found that some glass was not fired well, so it was thrown into the sea?" Ao Mudong said slowly with a toothpick in his mouth.
"How is it possible? The glass fired by your family is not up to standard, so you specially threw it into the sea from a long distance?" Ao Mupeng retorted.
Ao Mudong said angrily: "You don't listen to me, didn't you hear me? This was thrown by the ship transporting glass."
"Then how did this kind of glass get on board?"
"Damn, you have a million questions? Are you curious?"
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Lu Hu tried to smooth things over and said: "What you said is possible, because the source of this seabed glass is still an unsolved mystery, but it should not be man-made, because I saw an underwater photo in the Netherlands at that time, and it took this kind of seabed glass, with a volume of hundreds of cubic meters, like a small mountain."
"Then where did it come from?" Ao Wenchang wondered, "The main component of glass is silicon, and now glass factories burn glass, It must be a high temperature of more than one thousand degrees, right? Are they formed by volcanic eruptions? "
Ao Muyang pointed to the surrounding area and said: "Is there a volcano on the seabed here? I didn't see it."
Ao Wenchang said: "Maybe the volcano erupted tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago, and the pure silicide formed has been preserved until now."
Du Xingyi said: "This guess is quite reliable. I took geology as an elective in college. There are some crystals underground. This may not be a volcanic eruption. It may also be a change in the seabed topography, causing these crystals to melt and mix with some other things to eventually become like this. "
"Then there must be a volcanic eruption, otherwise how can there be such a high temperature to melt the crystals?" Su Chenglong also participated in the discussion.
Du Xingyi smiled proudly and said: "You don't understand this, right? High pressure can also soften and melt crystals. Modern materials science has been working on this problem and using pressure to change the shape of objects. "
Everyone got together to discuss it, but in the end, no results were discussed.
Xu Nan did find a shooting topic. She asked Ao Muyang to go underwater to record and take pictures tomorrow, and then post them online to interact with netizens who follow Longtou Village.
It was getting dark, and a large group of people flocked to Brick Island.
There are enough houses on Brick Island, more than 40 in total, all of which are left over from the former fishing grounds. The most used ones now are residences and warehouses.
In addition, some houses have been empty for many years. After being blown by the sea breeze and hit by rain, they are no longer habitable.
Fortunately, Ao Muyang has foresight. During the construction of Brick Island, he arranged for workers to clean up those houses. Originally, he planned to provide accommodation for workers who would come to the island to work in the future. Now that a group of people have come to the island, they can just stay there first.
The old man likes to be lively, and the island has always been deserted. Although Ao Zhibing didn't say anything, he still longed for more people to accompany him.
Now dozens of young people from the village have come to the island, and the old man is very happy. He was preparing dinner after receiving the news. When everyone showed up, he greeted them happily:
"Hey, Daguo is here. Is your mother doing well?"
"Xiaodong, come and see grandpa. I heard that you are getting married, why didn't you send me a message?"
"The scholar has become darker. Well, it's better to be darker. Which man in our fishing family is not dark and wrinkled? Only you have been white and clean like a peeled taro since you were a child."
Ao Zhibing is older than others in the village. He took the initiative to greet them. How dare the fishermen in the village not say hello? He immediately became the center of the topic, and a group of people gathered around him to chat.