Live appraising treasures, I became a national treasure expert?

Chapter 349 Down here

Found it?

Didn't it mean that Li Ding'an has been messing around?

There is mutton oil in the left hand and basalt in the right hand. Zuo Peng looked back and forth.

However, he is not familiar with it. He only knows a little bit about geology and really can't see why.

"Lao Wan, Lao Bu, what do you think?"

"It's theoretically possible!"

"Actually?"

“It’s very difficult to operate!”

Maybe he felt that this answer was too perfunctory, so Director Bu organized the wording: "This is like discovering a piece of gold-containing ore on the mountain. If you want to find the veins, you will need massive surveys and exploration... Anyway, it is definitely not a few. It can be completed in a month!”

This is indeed the case.

But Zuo Peng found that if it were Li Dingan, many principles would not work?

Anyway, he has been doing archeology for so many years, and this is the first time that he has been competing with a mountain to find the site of a porcelain kiln.

The question is, did he really find the clue?

So, they looked very excited.

The machine stopped for a moment, the drill pipe was assembled in the field, and the experimental team hurriedly took samples from the drill pipe.

Who just said that the theory is feasible, but the operation is very difficult?

"How did you disappear?"

Xing Feng led his team members to install the drilling machine. With a buzz, the arm-thick drill bit cut into butter like a red-hot knife, and it went in in the blink of an eye.

"Here, here, and here!"

"What's wrong with you, toothache?"

I was very lucky and didn't hit any rocks.

"Center of Depression No. 2!"

Li Ding'an walked down, "We'll find out which one it is exactly!"

The second group collected soil from the edge of the No. 1 depression at a depth of ten meters and each layer was fifty centimeters, paying attention to the integrity of the soil layer. The third group of vertical drilling rigs drilled in the center of No. 3 depression to a depth of twenty meters... The experimental group did a good job of soil layer analysis... The data group did a good job of image recording..."

The researcher shoveled up and analyzed the soil layer. The field team picked up the second shovel and continued drilling downward.

The center of the depression, shouldn’t it?

If the mine is buried due to mudslides, landslides, or collapses, there will be no difference in the quality of the shallow soil. It will still be loess, not sand, and at most there will be no biological layer.

The steel Luoyang shovel has a 60-centimeter-long shovel head and a half-meter-long pole. With more than a dozen hammer blows, the shovel head is smashed into the ground. With a twist and lift, the soil layer is brought out.

"No...it feels like what Teacher Li said, the possibility...is very high?"

"But why is it buried?"

But it's not thick, only about ten centimeters, and it's all sandy soil below.

"Transfer to where?"

Ma Xianming quickly followed, and Zuo Peng was about to follow. He raised his feet, but paused.

Zuo Peng was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to say.

If it was formed in ancient times, it would only exist under the surface, at least three meters deep...

Everything is in order.

In a short time, Yao Chuan and Cheng Yongquan carried a Luoyang shovel and ran to Li Ding'an: "Teacher Li, look!"

There are many people gathered at the foot of the mountain: the field group, experimental group, and even the data group are all here.

After thinking for a moment, Li Ding'an suddenly realized: "This should be a sand surge caused by the earthquake, a layer of water-saturated sand washed up from under the sedimentary layer... Data group, check the largest earthquake in Naiman after Daoguang..."

"Nine times out of ten!"

Li Ding'an pointed to three depressions at the foot of the mountain, and then pointed to the gorge next to the depressions, "Part of it was dug out, and the rest should have been washed away!"

Li Ding'an and Ma Xianming stood side by side, standing where the suet gangue was discovered:

"The salt base of sheep oil gangue has low leaching, and the leaching is also low. There will be crystals on the surface. After weathering and decay, they will turn into iron-aluminum clay, and then further, it will be red clay. But the leaching and leaching of sheep oil gangue are The leaching degree is relatively high and will not remain on the surface, but will disappear..."

"Did they dig it out?" Ma Xianming suddenly realized: "These three depressions turned out to be china clay mines?"

Let’s see if I have been busy for more than half a month and whether I can pack it up and go home tomorrow.

Li Ding'an stood in the middle and assigned tasks:

"There are two ways: first, rainfall, through water seeping into the ground; second, water and soil erosion, moving down the mountain again..."

He put down the stone, clapped his hands, and walked behind Li Ding'an.

Li Ding'an grabbed a little and twisted it carefully: silt sand, and dead clay?

“Where did you get the soil sample?”

Yao Chuan pointed to the end of the shovel, which is close to the surface. The soil layer is brown. This is the reason why there is moisture in the soil. If it is dried, it will be loess, which is a common soil quality in the Tongliao Plain.

"There are many reasons, but we can't escape geological disasters: earthquakes, mudslides, mountain collapses, subsidences, etc. are all possible!"

Director Bu scratched his ears and cheeks, bared his teeth and grinned.

"The first group drilled on the top of the mountain, paying attention to avoid the peak and rock formations, and looked for thick soil layers. The depth was temporarily five meters, with fifty centimeters as the boundary layer, and samples were taken layer by layer...

The speed is very fast, copying tools, installing drilling rigs, and setting up cameras.

Did you have two minutes to finish speaking?

He sighed and hurried down the mountain.

The key point is that whether it is silt sand or dead clay, it was formed at the bottom of the water. How could it end up on the hillside?

There was no need to check, Director Bu blurted out: "In 1940, there was an earthquake in Baxiantong Township, with a magnitude of 6.5 and an intensity of 9!"

"distance!"

"The straight-line distance is ninety kilometers!"

enough.

The Jishishan earthquake was 6.2, with an intensity of 8. A sand surge also occurred in Minhe, more than kilometers away, burying two entire villages.

There are only three mines here, and they can easily be buried flat...

Wan Chengbiao recalled hard: "Why don't I remember the 1940 earthquake?"

"It was the Japanese-Puppet period, and there were no specialized geological and disaster research institutions. Moreover, no one died, but a few yurts were demolished, so there was no record in the old county annals... When I inspected the Yan Great Wall a few years ago, I started from Kailu It was found in the county annals..."

"It wasn't in the original information?"

Director Bu choked up: Who said there is no Kailu County Chronicle?

When he retrieved the information, he didn't think about it at all...

Suddenly, another person ran over from a distance, it seemed to be Wei Zili, the leader of the experimental group.

He was running and laughing, his molars sticking out.

As soon as he arrived in front of Li Ding'an, he punched forward with both hands.

It is a handful of soil. At first glance, it looks no different from the shallow soil dug out by the previous Luoyang shovel: yellow loam.

But if you look carefully, you can see that there are a few mud balls sandwiched in the middle. They are very wet, smooth, and dark brown in color, just like soaked bricks.

"Sampling location?"

"The zone between depression No. 1 and depression No. 3!"

"How deep is it?"

"Between two and a half to three meters!"

“Has the pH been done?”

"The pH test value is 5.8!"

"Si-aluminum ratio?"

"3.2!"

Li Ding'an nodded: "It's larger than illite, smaller than montmorillonite, and it's highly acidic... Yes, iron brick red soil..."

Zuo Peng leaned back, and behind him were Wan Duan and Director Bu, both of whom were speechless.

Do you still dare to say now: It is theoretically possible but very difficult to operate? What a big fart, I just drilled it casually a few times...

"Teacher Li, I have another question: Unlike a mine, a porcelain kiln must be built on the surface. Even if it is buried due to a geological disaster, there should be certain physical remains on the surface..."

This is indeed a question: Not to mention the porcelain tiles, how many kiln bricks and tiles should there be, right?

Unless half the mountain falls...

"let me think again……"

Li Ding'an pondered, "You should also search again to see if you can find any remaining porcelain clay layer. In addition, send a group of people back to the villa to measure the percentage of porcelain clay in the soil!"

"Teacher Li, do you want to test this too?"

"I suspect that the porcelain clay reserves here are not high, so the porcelain kilns have not existed here for a long time, so there is no record in the historical materials..."

Wei Zili slapped his forehead: "I understand!"

The percentage does not need to be too high. If it is less than 20%, there will be no mining value, and the porcelain kiln will of course have to be relocated.

Looking at the three depressions again, and inferring from the nearby soil quality, the depth cannot exceed thirty meters, otherwise there is a risk of collapse at any time.

Calculating the size...even a family-run workshop with a dozen people can only last for thirty or forty years at most...

Wei Zili turned around and left, and Ma Xianming came over again: "Is it possible that the porcelain kiln was not buried but washed away, such as a large mudslide occurred after the earthquake?"

"How far can it go?"

Ma Xianming was stunned for a moment and stopped talking.

The question comes back again: no matter what it was washed away by, there are at least relics left around it.

The problem is, no traces have been found yet...

While thinking about it, the intercom on Li Ding'an's shoulder rang twice more: "Teacher Li, this is Xing Feng... I drilled three places at intervals of twenty meters on the top of the mountain. The soil structure is basically the same: stone chips in order. , montmorillonite and hydromica, suet gangue and halloysite, bauxite..."

Zuo Peng only had a partial understanding and asked Director Bu in a low voice: "What are these?"

Director Bu sighed: "The four material states before basalt develops into brick red soil clay, representing four weathering stages at the same time..."

Doesn’t it mean that everything is correct?

There are basalts on the top of the mountain, the products of various weathering processes, and the final form of iron brick red soil was also found at the bottom of the mountain...

As well as the ravines in the mountains, the depressions under the mountains, the sand layers originally under the sedimentary layers, and seismic data...

Suddenly, Zuo Peng thought about the conversation with Li Ding'an that morning:

"Teacher Li, you have searched all over Qinglong Mountain. Where is the kiln site?"

"Probably buried!"

"Where is it buried?"

"Looking for it!"

"Then why did you go to the top of the mountain again? The kiln site was buried on the top of the mountain?"

"Of course the kiln site is not on the top of the mountain, but there are stones on the top of the mountain... If you find the stones, you can find the porcelain clay, if you find the porcelain clay, you can find the mine, and if you find the mine, you can find the kiln site..."

At the time, I thought it was nonsense. I also thought that Li Ding'an's way of thinking was different from ordinary people.

Others follow clues and traces, but Li Ding'an first assumes a result and then works backwards.

What if the result doesn't hold?

but now……

To be honest, Zuo Peng also had a toothache.

Suddenly, the sound of a car starting was heard in his ears, and Zuo Peng raised his head suddenly.

It was Xing Feng's group of pickup trucks pulling tools. Li Ding'an was sitting in the driver's seat, Ma Xianming was sitting in the passenger seat, and Shu Jinghao and Fang Zhijie were sitting behind them.

"Teacher Li, where are you going?"

"Go to the ravine and have a look!"

"Wait a minute, take me with you... Director Ma, you don't have to get off, I'll just sit in the back!"

Fang Zhijie moved in, and Zuo Peng squeezed into the back row.

Li Ding'an stepped on the accelerator, and the pickup truck sped away with a puff of black smoke.

Wan Chengbiao and Bu Zhimin were stunned for a moment, then jumped onto the off-road vehicle with a "swish". Just as they were about to start, Yao Chuan chased after them again: "Wait a minute... I found the kiln site soon, why do I have to go and take a look?"

The two looked at each other: staring.

After starting the car, Bu Zhimin let out a long sigh: "Team Leader Yao, my eyes have been opened this time!"

"What eye-opener?"

"I'm talking about Teacher Li, and his method and... well, way of thinking!"

It's no exaggeration. When Xing Feng said he was going to Laodao Mountain and drilled into the rock formations, he really wanted to curse: We are an archaeological team, not a geological exploration team.

Is there a connection between rock formations and porcelain kilns?

Look, does it matter?

Yao Chuan nodded subconsciously and felt guilty: Who said it wasn't?

Not to mention Wan Chengbiao, even in the project team, even this morning, there are still many people who doubt: Find the kiln site from the top of the mountain... Teacher Li's imagination is getting bigger and bigger, and his ideas are getting weirder and weirder. ?

Now, is it weird?

My face feels hot just thinking about it...

After thinking about it, the car drove down the foot of the mountain and reached the edge of the gorge.

Not far away, less than 500 meters from the nearest depression.

It is very wide, more than twenty meters by visual inspection, but not deep, only five or six meters.

The bottom of the ditch is gravel and gravel, and the two sides are loess. It is a typical trough-shaped valley formed by floods and torrents.

There are many such trenches in the Qinglong Mountain area. Because the soil is loose and there is too little vegetation, they will collapse easily. Even now, houses and farmland are often buried.

After finding a gentle slope, Li Ding'an went down to the bottom of the ditch and walked along the side close to the mountain, watching as he walked.

The soil layer on the ditch wall is very uniform, mostly loess, occasionally mixed with one or two layers of gravel and fine sand.

This hierarchical environment is closely related to the geological structure of the mountain: whatever is washed down from the mountain by heavy rains or floods will be the structure of this layer.

While walking, Li Dingan stopped.

Zuo Peng came up and took a look: "Why is it different here?"

It is indeed different: other places are loess, but this is sand?

Is it also a sand rush?

Not completely, it seems to be mixed with some black soil.

Tongliao is located in the northeast, so it’s normal to have black soil. Doesn’t it feel like there’s nothing strange about it?

Just as he was suspicious, Li Ding'an grabbed a handful of soil and shook it gently.

After a while, black soil-like material was sifted to the surface.

He twirled his hands and said, "I know!"

"what?"

"The method of harvesting porcelain clay is a combination of open-pit mining and tunnel mining. The kiln entrance is built above the mine. When an earthquake occurred, it caused the mine to collapse, and... it all sank. That's why no traces can be found? "

Li Ding'an pointed to the black substance in his hand again: "This is not soil, but ash: the residue after the calcining of coal and charcoal... There was another sand surge after the earthquake, and the squeezed out... Old horse, shout excavator……"

Ha, the porcelain kiln is down here?

Ma Xianming stared blankly at the ditch bank, and the scene in the morning appeared in his mind:

"Teacher Li, after digging the top of the mountain, do you still need to dig the cliffs and valleys?"

"Don't tell me, it's really possible."

"Don't...I beg you..."

"Okay, after exploring the top of the mountain, we will go back home..."

Suddenly, he broke out in a cold sweat: If Li Ding'an hadn't insisted, he might not have been able to find it for another ten years, let alone next year.

But who would have thought that the kiln site would be buried under the valley?

(End of this chapter)