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  2. Dimension stone - Wikipedia

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    Dimension stone is natural stone or rock that has been selected and finished (e.g., trimmed, cut, drilled or ground) to specific sizes or shapes. Color, texture and pattern, and surface finish of the stone are also normal requirements. Another important selection criterion is durability: the time measure of the ability of dimension stone to ...

  3. Stone flaming - Wikipedia

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    Stone flaming. Stone flaming or thermaling is the application of high temperature to the surface of stone to make it look like natural weathering. [1][2] The sudden application of a torch to the surface of stone causes the surface layer to expand and flake off, exposing rough stone. Flaming works well on granite, because granite is made up of ...

  4. Spheroidal weathering - Wikipedia

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    Spheroidal or woolsack weathering in granite on Haytor, Dartmoor, England Spheroidal weathering in granite, Estaca de Bares, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain Woolsack weathering in sandstone at the Externsteine rocks, Teutoburg Forest, Germany Corestones near Musina, South Africa that were created by spherodial weathering and exposed by the removal of surrounding saprolite by erosion.

  5. Granite - Wikipedia

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    Granite (/ ˈ ɡ r æ n ɪ t / GRAN-it) is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies underground.

  6. Granitschale im Lustgarten - Wikipedia

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    Granitschale im Lustgarten. The Great Granite Bowl in Berlin's Lustgarten (German: Granitschale im Lustgarten), which is located in front of the Altes Museum, has a diameter of 6.91 meters and weighs approximately 75 tons. With a circumference of 69 1 ⁄ 7 feet (approximately 21.7 meters), it is considered the Biedermeier Wonder of the World ...

  7. Cornubian batholith - Wikipedia

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    The lines represents the 20 mGal Bouguer anomaly. The Cornubian batholith is a large mass of granite rock, formed about 280 million years ago, which lies beneath much of Cornwall and Devon in the south-western peninsula of Great Britain. The main exposed masses of granite are seen at Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor, St Austell, Carnmenellis, Land's End ...

  8. Statue of Michael Jordan - Wikipedia

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    Base of statue (right side) at the United Center chronicling Jordan's career achievements. While the sculpture was a work in progress, the location of the sculptor's rented studio was kept secret from the rest of the world, while the husband-and-wife sculptor team and three assistants spent four months working for sixteen hours every day of the week. [7]

  9. Solovetsky Stone (Saint Petersburg) - Wikipedia

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    It features a crude granite slab, 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) high, mounted on a square granite pedestal (0.35 m × 2.35 m × 2.3 m [1 ft 2 in × 7 ft 9 in × 7 ft 7 in]), itself based on a concrete impost surrounded by granite footings.0.2 m (7.9 in) high. [18] [19] The edges are oriented on the four cardinal points of the compass. From a certain angle ...