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Illustration of Jacob's dream in the Book of Genesis Supposed site of Jacob's rest in Beit El, Binyamin district, as theorised by Zev Vilnay. The Stone of Jacob appears in the Book of Genesis as the stone used as a pillow by the Israelite patriarch Jacob at the place later called Bet-El.
On November 8th, 1993, the United States Senate passed a resolution calling for the construction of a memorial to honour the victims of the Lockerbie Bombing.Blocks of red sandstone from the Corsehill Quarry were used to build the Lockerbie Bombing cairn in Arlington National Cemetery.
Old Red Sandstone, abbreviated ORS, is an assemblage of rocks in the North Atlantic region largely of Devonian age. It extends in the east across Great Britain, Ireland and Norway, and in the west along the eastern seaboard of North America .
The carnelian is a siliceous stone and a species of chalcedony. Its colour is a flesh-hued red, varying from the palest flesh-colour to a deep blood-red. It is of a conchoidal structure. Normally its colour is without clouds or veins; but sometimes delicate veins of extremely light red or white are found arranged much like the rings of an agate.
Red beds (or redbeds) are sedimentary rocks, typically consisting of sandstone, siltstone, and shale, that are predominantly red in color due to the presence of ferric oxides. Frequently, these red-colored sedimentary strata locally contain thin beds of conglomerate , marl , limestone , or some combination of these sedimentary rocks.
The Eday Group consists of three sandstone units, the lower, middle and upper Eday Sandstones separated by the Eday Flagstones and Eday Marl respectively. The Eday Marl consists mainly of red and green mudstones and siltstones and is thought to have been deposited in a river floodplain environment. [5]
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Purple Mountain is composed of sandstone particles of various sizes which are collectively known as Old Red Sandstone. [4] Old Red Sandstone has a purple-reddish colour, and has virtually no fossils. [4] [5] The colour gave its name to the mountain group. [4] The composition of Old Red Sandstone is variable and contains quartz stones, mudstones ...