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A small cob building with a living roof Porch of a modern timber framed home. Natural building or ecological building is a discipline within the more comprehensive scope of green building, sustainable architecture as well as sustainable and ecological design that promotes the construction of buildings using sustainable processes and locally available natural materials.
A rock structure can be created in any rock type or combination: Igneous rocks are created when molten rock cools and solidifies, with or without crystallisation. They may be either plutonic bodies or volcanic extrusive. Again, erosive forces sculpt their current forms.
Structures built by non-human animals, often called animal architecture, [1] are common in many species. Examples of animal structures include termite mounds , ant hills , wasp and beehives , burrow complexes, beaver dams , elaborate nests of birds , and webs of spiders .
Lava tube – Natural conduit through which lava flows beneath the solid surface; Lavaka – Type of gully, formed via groundwater sapping; Levee – Ridge or wall to hold back water, natural; Limestone pavement – Natural karst landform consisting of a flat, incised surface of exposed limestone; Loess – Sediment of accumulated wind-blown dust
Bridge Mountain's natural arch; Lexington Arch, Great Basin National Park; Little Finland, Gold Butte National Monument; Red Rock Canyon; Valley of Fire State Park. Elephant Rock; Fire Wave (similar to but smaller than The Wave in Arizona) Natural Arch (collapsed in 2010)
The Maltese temples are the oldest free-standing structures on Earth. [62] Ashoka Pillars, weighing up to about 50 tons, were transported throughout India to territory ruled by Ashoka. [63] Göbekli Tepe, Turkey. Megaliths from 10 to a 50-ton pillar still in its quarry [64] transported up to a 1/4 mile. [65] Stonehenge, England. Largest stones ...
[a] Empedocles (c. 494–c. 434 BC) to an extent anticipated Darwin's evolutionary explanation for the structures of organisms. [b] Plato (c. 427–c. 347 BC) argued for the existence of natural universals. He considered these to consist of ideal forms (εἶδος eidos: "form") of which physical objects are never more than imperfect copies.
Subterranea are underground structures, both natural (such as caves) and human-made (such as mines). [1] Some subterranea and related topics include: Natural.