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2. Suiseki - Wikipedia

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   The stone is placed in a waterproof tray or bowl of ceramic (水盤 suiban) or bronze (doban). These stones are not just any stones which can be found in nature; they must be expressive stones and have a special shape, color and texture to be categorized as suiseki. There is a distinction between landscape and object stones.

3. Fieldstone - Wikipedia

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   Fieldstone is a naturally occurring type of stone, which lies at or near the surface of the Earth. Fieldstone is a nuisance for farmers seeking to expand their land under cultivation, but at some point it began to be used as a construction material. [1] [2] [3] Strictly speaking, it is stone collected from the surface of fields where it occurs ...

4. Japanese dry garden - Wikipedia

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   The Japanese dry garden (枯山水, karesansui) or Japanese rock garden, often called a Zen garden, is a distinctive style of Japanese garden. It creates a miniature stylized landscape through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and uses gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in ...

5. List of decorative stones - Wikipedia

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   Natural stone is used as architectural stone (construction, flooring, cladding, counter tops, curbing, etc.) and as raw block and monument stone for the funerary trade. Natural stone is also used in custom stone engraving. The engraved stone can be either decorative or functional. Natural memorial stones are used as natural burial markers.

6. Stone spheres of Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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   Pre-Columbian stone sphere, located at the University of Costa Rica as a symbol of tradition and ancient wisdom. Stone spheres of the Diquís exhibited at Museo del Jade. Scientific research in the alluvial plain, particularly on United Fruit Company properties, began in the 1940s with the work of Doris Zemurray Stone and Samuel Lothrop ...

7. Puddingstone (rock) - Wikipedia

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   Puddingstone, also known as either pudding stone or plum-pudding stone, is a popular name applied to a type of conglomerate that consists of distinctly rounded pebbles whose colours contrast sharply with the colour of the finer-grained, often sandy, matrix or cement surrounding them.