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  2. Cairn - Wikipedia

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    The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory asks visitors to say “no” to rock piles after a surge in the creation of cairns by visitors. The construction of these rock formations comes at the cost of important geological features that visitors pry rocks off of. The practice is viewed as an act of graffiti on the landscape of the park. [30]

  3. Ceremonial stone landscape - Wikipedia

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    Elements often found at these sites include dry stone walls, rock piles (sometimes referred to as cairns), stone chambers, unusually-shaped boulders, split boulders with stones inserted in the split, and boulders propped up off the ground with smaller rocks.

  4. Oley Hills site - Wikipedia

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    Shaped rock piles on boulders at the Oley Hills site Large shaped rock pile at the Oley Hills site Cairn or rock pile at the Oley Hills site: sometimes said to resemble a turtle The Oley Hills site , or Oley Hills stone work site , located in Berks County, Pennsylvania , is an enigmatic complex of snaking dry stone walls, carefully shaped rock ...

  5. Rock balancing - Wikipedia

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    Rock piling in streams silts the water, disrupts critical habitat, and can kill rare wildlife. In a river in Pisgah National Forest, scientists have repeatedly found protected Eastern hellbender salamanders crushed under the piles of rocks that tourists build midstream. In addition to the direct killing that takes place while the rocks are ...

  6. The Nature Photographer Of The Year: 30 Captivating Images ...

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    The almost transparent gas-filled bladder of the Portuguese man o’ war, the colours, ranging from pink, to purple, to violet in total contrast with the clear blue of the marine water made for a ...

  7. Have you seen these giant piles of rocks at Yosemite ... - AOL

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  8. Belvédère (Petit Trianon) - Wikipedia

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    The guests were greeted by a rock illuminated and surrounded by transparent figures of piles of stones covered with foliage. All the Belvédère's protrusions were accentuated by strings of lights and lanterns concealed in tufts of fake reeds, which cast reflections on the lake.

  9. List of rock formations - Wikipedia

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    Rocks formations and the Dedo de Deus (God's Finger) peak in the background, Serra dos Órgãos National Park, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil Raouché or Pigeons' Rock in Beirut, Lebanon Druid Arch, Canyonlands National Park, Utah, US View of Meteora, Greece Rock formations in Ongamira Valley, Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina Belogradchik Rocks, Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria "Jaws", an erosional fin ...