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Levitated Mass is a 2012 large-scale public art sculpture by Michael Heizer at Resnick North Lawn at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The installation consists of a 340-ton boulder sculpture placed above a 456-foot viewing pathway to accommodate 360-degree viewing. [1]
The Dighton Rock is a 40-ton boulder, originally located in the riverbed of the Taunton River at Berkley, Massachusetts (formerly part of the town of Dighton).The rock is noted for its petroglyphs ("primarily lines, geometric shapes, and schematic drawings of people, along with writing, both verified and not."), [2] carved designs of ancient and uncertain origin, and the controversy about ...
The Mesa Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is a research center located in Boulder, Colorado.The building complex was designed by modernist architect I. M. Pei in 1961 as his first project outside of city building design. [1]
World War II pillbox on eroding boulder clay, Filey Bay, England Boulder clay cliffs in Gwynedd with Dinas Dinlle in the background. Boulder clay is an unsorted agglomeration of clastic sediment that is unstratified and structureless and contains gravel of various sizes, shapes, and compositions distributed at random in a fine-grained matrix.
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A balancing rock, also called a balanced rock, precariously balanced rock (PBR), or precarious boulder, is a naturally occurring geological formation featuring a large rock or boulder, sometimes of substantial size, resting on other rocks, bedrock, or on glacial till. Some formations known by this name only appear to be balancing, but are in ...
Boulder in British Columbia, Canada Kämmenkivi stone on the Pisa hill in Kuopio, Finland 2'500 Million years old rocks on a hill in Hyderabad, India. In geology, a boulder (or rarely bowlder) [1] is a rock fragment with size greater than 25.6 cm (10.1 in) in diameter. [2] Smaller pieces are called cobbles and pebbles.