Saturn in the ground
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Saturn in the ground

by Petra Schneider, Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Opus sectile in the floor of the St. Nicholas Church, a museum and an ancient Byzantine Greek Church located in town of Demre, Antalya Province, Turkey. Various types of rocks were used for creating this mosaic (limestones, breccias, igneous rocks...) but mostly marble.