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I've come across some attractive rocks when down in Cornwall, my favourite being the green marbled 'Serpentine' that seems to be particulary extensive around the Lizard Peninsular. This rock looks amazing when polished and many of the shops carry items made from its highly polished form.
This year I came across a rock type I've never seen before near St Michael's Mount at Marazion. After doing a little research, I am almost certain it is a rock type known as Blueschist. It is formed under very high temperatures and its blue colour comes from the presence of the predominant minerals glaucophane and lawsonite. Unlike the aforementioned Serpentine, I have only seen it in its natural state, so I don't know whether it can be polished.
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.
2011 was a pretty busy year for me. So busy, in fact, that I didn't even get around to editing or posting all my photos from 2010!! Going through the archives I found this little gem. A "behind the scenes" shot of fellow photographer and pal, Del Higgins, shooting Spider Rock at Canyon De Chelly in Chinle, Arizona.
One of the most amazing places I've ever been. It holds such an amazing energy, and one should never leave this place feeling depleted. I will be going through the archives and posting some more photos like this soon...Happy New Year, everyone!!
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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.
A wider view of the strange rock formations at the top of Malham cove. Malham is situated within the Yorkshire dales national park. Which is around 30miles or 48km north of Leeds.
I tried my hand at 8-wide for the first time-well, my first actual attempt, I should say. I ended up doing the hood 4-wide with a plate on each side because 6 was too wide, four wasnt wide enough, and I could never get a 5-wide hood to look decent enough for me. It has room for both the battery box and an IR receiver for PF
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]
View of Cheat Lake, from the Raven Rock overlook.
Coopers Rock State Forest, West Virginia (Nov 10, 2013
A chap sat on a rock in Cheddar Gorge on a lovely midwinter afternoon yesterday, listening - I know, you can't hear it, a picture can only convey so much - to something I think was Bob Seger. I normally frown upon people playing their music in such lovely spots - headphones exist, why not use them? - but this chap seemed so at one with the place I hadn't the heart to grumble. So instead I grabbed a quick shot of him sitting there, doing his thing, in a lovely spot on a lovely afternoon.
A coworker is going to retire soon and is preparing to sell her home. In cleaning out some of her stuff was a box with several rock samples. I took them home.
Ayers Rock is one of the most enduring images of Australia.
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It is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory, central Australia. Uluru is sacred to the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara, the Aboriginal people of the area. It has many springs, waterholes, rock caves and ancient paintings. Uluru is listed as a World Heritage Site. [more]
Rock City, north of Valier in North Central Montana along the Two Medicine River.
The area is known for its sandstone pillars often refereed to as hoodoos. The hoodoos have been created from the soft sandstone being eroded away by wind and water. Often a harder layer of stone remains on top of the pillars to give them kind of a mushroom shape. There are hundreds of these hoodoos spread over the landscape above the river’s edge with areas you can walk between them which gives the area the impression of being a city. The pillars raise from just a few feet high to over 20 feet for some of the taller ones.
Also known as rock badger, rock rabbit, and Cape hyrax, is commonly referred to in South African English as the dassie.
Singapore Zoo
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.
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