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London's tallest skyscraper is an 87 storey building containing apartments, offices, restaurants, hotel, retail outlets and observatory.
The Shard is part of the London Bridge Quarter and was designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. The beautiful skyscraper stands at approximately 1, 004 ft high (306 metres) and cost £435 million to construct.
As part of a short break to London we visited "View from the Shard" and highly recommend it. Superb attraction. Not great with heights but couldn't miss the spectacular views. Very well presented and in my opinion up there with New York's "Top of the Rock" (Rockefeller) and Empire State Building.
London, England.
June 2014.
The Rock Garden lies in Wilayt AdDuqm in AlWasta Governorate (the central region). It is a vast area of strange art forms, naturally sculpted from rocks.
The Rock Eagle Owl also called the Indian Eagle Owl or Bengal Eagle Owl, Bubo bengalensis is a species of large horned owl found in South Asia.
the rock front is painted and drying so i can varnish it. it may take quite a while to dry since my first try ended up looking way too colorful and didn't go with whitewashed wood of the picture frame. i covered over all each brick with a combo of blue-gray and white so only hints of the colors show through and i like the effect much better. i didn't have time to take a picture of the first try since i had to keep working while the paint was wet so all the colors would blend.
Rock gypsum (gyprock)
Sedimentary rocks form by the solidification of loose sediments. Loose sediments become hard rocks by the processes of deposition, burial, compaction, dewatering, and cementation.
There are three categories of sedimentary rocks:
1) Siliciclastic sedimentary rocks form by the solidification of sediments produced by weathering & erosion of any previously existing rocks.
2) Biogenic sedimentary rocks form by the solidification of sediments that were once-living organisms (plants, animals, micro-organisms).
3) Chemical sedimentary rocks form by the solidification of sediments formed by inorganic chemical reactions. Most sedimentary rocks have a clastic texture, but some are crystalline.
Rock gypsum (a.k.a. gyprock) is a chemical sedimentary rock. It is an example of an evaporite - it forms by the evaporation of water (usually seawater) and the precipitation of dissolved minerals. Rock salt & rock gypsum often occur together in evaporitic successions. Rock gypsum is composed of the mineral gypsum (CaSO4·2H2O - hydrous calcium sulfate). Heating of gypsum or rock gypsum drives off the water, leaving only calcium sulfate behind (the mineral anhydrite). Adding water to anhydrite results in the formation of gypsum again.
Rock gypsum, unlike rock salt, does not have a salty taste, and is softer (H = 2) - it can be scratched with a fingernail. Rock gypsum’s color is often a mottled whitish-light grayish-light brownish. It is usually microcrystalline and powdery looking (it’s much finer-grained than typical rock salt deposits). Rock gypsum superficially resembles chalk. Chalk is calcitic, and so will bubble in acid - rock gypsum does not bubble in acid. Rock gypsum samples vary from extremely friable to moderately solid.
Bass Rock, East Lothian, Scotland
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Rock Dove
The Rock Dove (doves and pigeons) In common usage, this bird is often simply referred to as the "pigeon".Wild Rock Doves are pale grey with two black bars on each wing, although domestic and feral pigeons are very variable in colour and pattern. There are few visible differences between males and females. Habitats include various open and semi-open environments. Cliffs and rock ledges are used for roosting and breeding in the wild.
Bare Rock was our destination for the walk. Cloud was coming in a bit but managed to get a couple of photos with some sun.
Also a photo taken from the same place in 1990.
Main Range National Park, Queensland.
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I'm thinking I'm going to start to learn a new sport.
Is 59 too old for this?
Big Rock (also known as either Okotoks Erratic or, by the Blackfoot Indians, as Okotok) is a 16,500-tonne (18,200-ton) boulder that is about the size of a two-story house and lies on the otherwise flat, relatively featureless, surface of the Canadian Prairies in Alberta. It is part of the 930-kilometre-long (580 mi) Foothills Erratics Train of typically angular boulders of distinctive quartzite and pebbly quartzite.
This massive angular boulder, which is broken into two main pieces, measures about 41 by 18 metres (135 by 60 feet) and is 9 m (30 ft) high. It consists of thick-bedded, micaceous, feldspathic quartzite that is light grey, pink, to purplish. Besides having been extensively fractured by frost action, it is unweathered. Big Rock lies about 8 km (5 mi) west of the town of Okotoks, Alberta, Canada, 18 km (11 mi) south of Calgary in the SE. 1/4 of Sec. 21, Township 20, Range 1, West 5th Meridian.[1][2]
Big Rock is a glacial erratic that is part of a 930 km (580 mi) long, narrow (1.00 to 22.05 km (0.62 to 13.7 mi) wide), linear scatter of thousands of distinctive quartzite and pebbly quartzite glacial erratics between 30 cm (1 ft) and 41 m (135 ft) in length. This linear scatter of distinctive quartzite glacial erratics is known as the Foothills Erratics Train. The Foothills Erratics Train extends along the eastern flanks of the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and northern Montana to the International Border. The boulders and smaller gravel, which comprises the Foothills Erratics Train, consist of Lower Cambrian shallow marine quartzite and conglomeratic quarzite, which occurs only within the Gog Group and is found in the Athabasca River Valley of central western Alberta. Big Rock is the largest erratic within the Foothills Erratics Train. Lying on prairie to the east of the Rocky Mountains and like all the larger erratics, it is visible for a considerable distance across the prairie and likely served as a prominent landmark for Indigenous people.[1][2][3][4]
Although sometimes claimed to be the largest glacial erratic in the world,[5] Big Rock is not. For example, one large glacial erratic in Germany measures 3 by 6 km (2 by 4 mi) and is 9 m (30 ft) thick.[6] Near Cooking Lake, Alberta, one of several large glacial erratics, which is called the Cooking Lake (Number 6) megablock, covers an area of at least 10 km2 (4 sq mi), has a length of 4.0 km (2.5 mi) and is about 10 m (33 ft) thick. Pollen studies indicate that the Lower Cretaceous sedimentary strata that comprise this glacial erratic were transported a minimum distance of about 260 km (160 mi).[7]
Image photographed in January 2014 compared with photograph of similar area as it appeared in the publicity brochure, “The Waters of Health and Happiness – the book of the White Rock Baths, Hastings”, published by Hastings Corporation White Rock Baths Committee c.1933.
Part of Hastings Library’s local studies collection.
For more information or to obtain a print, please contact East Sussex Libraries:library.enquiries@eastsussex.gov.uk
Outpost fortress in the middle of the ocean. Perfect place for princess to hide when her kingdom is in danger. Or maybe not? While she is making her hair and enjoying the Sun, her guards aren't as cautious as they should be. While they are enjoying their lunch and drinking, a bunch of orcs are trying to climb up to the castle living qurters.
This was my castle entry for Classic Castle Colossal Contest VI 2008.
Hat Rock is located off U.S. Highway 730, nine miles upstream of Umatilla, Oregon, at Columbia River Mile (RM) 298. Hat Rock is located within Oregon's Hat Rock State Park. The basalt monolith was passed by the Lewis and Clark Expedition on their journey down the Columbia, and today is one of the few remaining sites not under the waters of Lake Wallula, the reservoir behind the McNary Dam. On October 19, 1805, after leaving their camp near Spring Gulch Creek, Captain Clark wrote in his journal:
"... SW. 14 miles to a rock in a Lard. resembling a hat just below a rapid at the lower Point of an Island in the Midl: of the river ..." [Clark, October 19, 1805, first draft]
Immediately upstream of Hat Rock is Boat Rock, another distinctive basalt feature, and Warehouse Beach, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Recreation Area. Downstream of Hat Rock is McNary Beach, another Corps of Engineers Recreation Area. Hat Rock and Boat Rock are both Missoula Flood remnants of Columbia River Basalt flows.
Clark, October 19, 1805, first draft ...
S W. 14 miles to a rock in a Lard. resembling that a hat just below a rapid at the lower Point of an Island in the Midl: of the river 7 Lodges and opposit the head of one on the Stard. Side 5 Lodges passed an Island at 8 miles 6 miles long close to Lard Side no water on Lard. a Small one opsd. and at the lower point no water Lard. passed an Isld. in middle at 8 miles on which 5 Indian Lodges, deserted at the end of this course a bad rockey rapid place plenty of water rocks in the river. — passed a Stard. point at 4 miles country a little lower
Clark, October 19, 1805 ...
we Set out which was not untill 9 oClock A M. [from their camp at Spring Gulch] we proceeded on passed a Island, close under the Lard Side about Six miles in length [islands near Juniper Canyon, now under the waters of Lake Wallula] opposit to the lower point of which two Isds. are situated on one of which five Lodges vacent & Saffolds drying fish at the upper point of this Island Swift water. a Short distance below passed two Islands; one near the middle of the river on which is Seven lodges of Indians drying fish [across from Boat Rock and Hat Rock], at our approach they hid themselves in their Lodges and not one was to be seen untill we passed, they then Came out in greater numbers than is common in Lodges of their Size, it is probable that, the inhabitants of the 5 Lodges above had in a fright left their lodges and decended to this place to defend them Selves if attackted there being a bad rapid opposit the Island thro which we had to pass prevented our landing on this Island and passifying those people, about four miles below this fritened Island we arrived at the head of a verry bad rapid [Umatilla Rapids, today the location of the McNary Dam]
[The islands and rapids in this area between Spring Gulch and the Umatilla Rapids are now under the waters of Lake Wallula, the reservoir behind the McNary Dam. Today's locations passed by Lewis and Clark include Sand Station, Warehouse Beach, and McNary Beach, all U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Recreation Areas, and Hat Rock State Park and nearby Boat Rock. Hat Rock was mentioned by Captain Clark in his first draft but not in his final draft.]
we came too on the Lard Side to view the rapid [Umatilla Rapids] before we would venter to run it, as the Chanel appeared to be close under the oppd. Shore, and it would be necessary to liten our canoe, I deturmined to walk down on the Lard Side, with the 2 Chiefs the interpreter & his woman, and derected the Small canoe to prcede down on the Lard Side to the foot of the rapid which was about 2 miles in length I Sent on the Indian Chiefs &c. down and I assended a high clift about 200 feet above the water [upstream of Umatilla. Today there is an overlook above the McNary Dam] from the top of which is a leavel plain extending up the river and off for a great extent, at this place the Countrey becoms low on each Side of the river, and affords a pros of the river and countrey below for great extent both to the right and left; from this place I descovered a high mountain of emence hight covered with Snow, this must be one of the mountains laid down by Vancouver, as Seen from the mouth of the Columbia River, from the Course which it bears which is West I take it to be Mt. St. Helens, destant 156 miles [actually Mount Adams, Washington, visible on a clear day] a range of mountains in the Derection crossing [Cascade Mountains], a conacal mountain S. W. toped with Snow [Mount Hood, Oregon] This rapid I observed [Umatilla Rapids] as I passed opposit to it to be verry bad interseped with high rock and Small rockey Islands [today these islands are under the waters of Lake Wallula, the reservoir behind the McNary Dam], here I observed banks of Muscle Shells banked up in the river in Several places, I Delayed at the foot of the rapid about 2 hours for the Canoes which I could See met with much dificuelty in passing down the rapid on the oposit Side maney places the men were obliged to get into the water and haul the canoes over Sholes- while Setting on a rock wateing for Capt Lewis I Shot a Crain which was flying over of the common kind. I observed a great number of Lodges on the opposit Side at Some distance below [Lewis and Clark's map show 44 lodges lining the Washington shore from Plymouth, Washington, downstream to across from Irrigon, Oregon.] and Several Indians on the opposit bank passing up to where Capt. Lewis was with the Canoes, others I Saw on a knob [Sillusi Butte] nearly opposit to me at which place they delayed but a Short time before they returned to their Lodges as fast as they could run, ...
[This area today is the location of Umatilla, Oregon, and Plymouth, Washington, and is spanned not only by McNary Dam but also my the Interstate 82/395 Bridge. The Umatilla Rapids are below the waters of Lake Wallula, the waters behind McNary Dam.]
proceeded on passed a Small rapid and 15 Lodges below the five,
[Lewis and Clark have missed spotting or commenting on the Umatilla River, located 3 miles downstream of the town of Umatilla.]
and Encamped below an Island Close under the Lard Side [near Irrigon, Oregon] nearly opposit to 24 Lodges on an Island near the middle of the river [the majority of the islands in this area are now under the waters of Lake Umatilla, the reservoir behind the John Day Dam.], and the Main Stard Shor Soon after we landed which was at a fiew willow trees [today much of the shoreline on both sides of the Columbia is within the Umatilla National Wildlife Refuge] about 100 Indians Came from the different Lodges, and a number of them brought wood which they gave us, we Smoked with all of them, and two of our Party Peter Crusat & Gibson played on the violin which delighted them greatly ... This day we made 36 miles
It fascinated me to see this rock on top of another rock, almost as if someone had placed it there, almost as if someone stood on top of it, it would topple over.
Taken on the beach at Bruce Bay, some 'rock art' left by visitors them as a memento of their having visited. Such displays were seen at various other places around South Island, but not on such a scale as here. Naturally, we left our mark too. The Tasman Sea breaks onto the beach, where there was hardly another soul around.
What a delicate little joey. Looks very fragile and wary of the big world that surrounds it. These are Rock Wallabies, located in Mareeba, on the Atherton Tablelands.
Shot in Red Rock Canyon, Neveada. Look close and you can see climbers in the crevaces of the rock face.
Rock Garden,
Darjeeling
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講到“ROCK”，怎能不提及與「IN/SECTS」同屬關西派的「Talking Rock」（簡稱：TR）呢？奈良出身的編集長吉川尚宏是個標準獅子男，一人独斷独裁地牢牢主掌整本刊物的走向面貌。從2007年創刊至今，持續不懈地應援追蹤關西的搖滾歌手與楽團，比方第二号就以京都天團QURULI作為卷頭表紙代表，激勵剛崛起正準備出道的地方新團。在大阪fm osaka主持深夜音楽節目的他，還不時因為娃娃臉，及造型打扮，而被誤認為20代左右的年輕人，只能說是頻常保持「ONLY ROCK！！」心態活力的人是永遠不顯老的。