Trovants: These Magic Rocks That Grow And Multiply And Stuff

Ben Jammin Kraft
Feb 29, 2016
1 min read

When I first read about trovants, I couldn’t believe they were real. They seemed like something from an episode of Dragonball Z. Strange rocks that grow once it rains and move from one place to a different without help. Pretty nifty eh?

As my research went on, I discovered that trovants aren’t a pipedream at all, they're simply an incredible geologic phenomena. These stones appear to grow as if they're alive,despite the fact that they’re not. they're found within the tiny Romanian village of Costesti. The word ‘trovant’ may be a equivalent word for the German term “Sandsteinkonkretionen” (try speech communication that basically fast), which implies ‘cemented sand’. Cemented sand – that sure is a wierd ass way to describe a rock me thinks, but that's exactly what they are – spherical shapes of sand that appeared on earth after some crazy ass seismic activity. Actually the earthquakes that brought dees balls into existence apperently happened over 6 million years ago!

Trovants grow after they get contact with water (not unlike a gremlin... I hate gremlins) They start with little gremlin babies poking off of the side which gradually grow and grow until the main rock can no longer support the weight of the new one and it falls off and begins a new life, with a new job and new dreams.

Maybe a house and a wife.

I have posted some wicked pics, and a neat little documentary you can watch to learn all about these neat little wonders!

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