Maria
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | Roger Williams University, Freshman |
| Location | Shirley, Massachusetts, United States |
| Introduction | "walk softly, but carry a big stick..." |
| Interests | Music, RPGs/Gaming, Cooking, Sleeping, The Ocean, My Friends, Anime, Painting, AIO, Piano, Musical Theater, Movies, Traveling, SCUBA, Swimming |
| Favorite movies | Lord of the Rings, Boondock Saints, Donnie Darko, Tears of the Sun, Flight 93, Crash, Fight Club, Narnia, Finding Nemo, Inside Man, MI:1,2 and 3, Star Wars/Trek, Moulin Rouge, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Bourne Identity/Supremacy, Chicago, Spanglish, Thank You For Smoking, Juno, The Bucket List, Dead Poets Society |
| Favorite music | Everything...except most country and exceedingly ditzy pop. |
| Favorite books | Snow Crash, HP Series, LOTR, Deception Point, Phillip Pullman-His Dark Materials, The Beast, The Kiterunner, Atlantis Found, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Prep, Boy Proof, National Geographic, Scientific American... |
If mud is dirt plus water, what is clay?
Clay consists of a variety of phyllosilicate minerals rich in silicon and aluminium oxides and hydroxides which include variable amounts of structural water. Clays are generally formed by the chemical weathering of silicate-bearing rocks by carbonic acid but some are formed by hydrothermal activity..