Granite
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On the idyllic Seychelles island of La Digue, huge granite boulders complement the beauty of translucent water, white sandy beaches and jungle vegetation
The Mary Schenley Memorial Fountain, also known as A Song to Nature, is a 1918 landmark public sculpture in bronze and granite by Victor David Brenne
An upper layer of granite on Enchanted Rock appears like a colossal wave crashing into the stone below
Granite erosion-control blocks along the Galveston, Texas, Seawall are pounded by the Gulf of Mexico surf on a summer morning.
The Gulf of Mexico roars onto granite blocks at the base of the Galveston Seawall, Galveston, Texas.
A well worn path leads through granite, grass, and bracken, up to the Bassett Monument at Carn Brea. A great place to look out over the North coast and the Atlantic beyond.
Hugh outcrops of weather worn granite surround the area. A Neolithic settlement was discovered in the 1970's that showed that it was occupied between 3700 ad 3400 BC....
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The old and weary windswept tree at the 'Dogrocks Reserve' granite outcrop near Geelong.
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In the old part of Porto along the river (here the Rua da Reboleira in Ribeira) the frame of the houses is made from solid granite. Some of the buildings, such as that with the Gothic arches, go back to the 14th century. A number of Porto's buildings were damaged in the massive 18th century earthquake. Not these.
A beautiful set of falls and very convenient to shoot. My GPS said we found it and I didn't see a thing. So, I turned into a gas station to ask directions. The lady said- it's right here on the left- you can park at the end of our lot. She was right about 25 yards to a lookout!
A side view of the 17th century gatehouse to the Lanhydrock estate in Cornwall. Magmatic intrusion materials, such as granite, form the geological skeleton of the Cornish topography. Since prehistoric times, granite has been used whenever the mark of permanence was required: we were here!
A granite jetty or, more-properly, groyne, reaches into the Gulf of Mexico from the Galveston Island, Texas, beach.
This granite knob lies in the Sweewater Rocks in the Granite Mountains near Jeffery City, Wyoming. Geologically, this granite knob is located in the Archean-age Sweetwater subprovince of the Wyoming Craton. These rocks represent a time when Wyoming was a separate microcontinent called the Wyoming Craton which existed 500 million years before the North American Continent formed. The Sweetwater subprovince has an east-west tectonic grain which is caused by a shear zone between the Sweetwater and Southern Accredited Terrane subprovinces along the southern edge of the Wyoming microcontinent.
I went out after rain and found this unlikely garden thriving. The prolonged drought in the western U.S. has troubled the plants and wildlife. It's nice to see some surviiving
Completed in January 1945 using Rubislaw (Aberdeen) granite. Architect Leo Durnin, with “Spirit of the Wind” figure designed by Thomas Huxley-Jones.
Silver Mines Recreational Area
State Highway D
Madison County Missouri
Photo taken on October 3, 2020
Granite is great. It’s hard, weathers through countless winters of freezing and thawing. It does break down, eventually but slowly. Lines laying across the rocky surface tells us when the next break will occur. The individual shapes and sizes of the rocks are like fluffy clouds, they remind us of something, maybe a snake sneaking through the water, a seal sunning on the beach in the cold north. One looks like it would make a perfect seat. I could sit here watch the dragonflies fizz by, the minnows erratic meandering the the pools of water the myriad of colors in the trees that’s changing into fall.
Smooth granite boulders step down toward a pale, fast-moving creek, with pines framing sunlit cliffs and a snow-dusted ridge beyond. The light is cool and even, the scale of the rock making the valley feel deep.
Sheer granite cliffs carved by ancient glaciers line Sam Ford Fjord on northern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.