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2. Garden furniture - Wikipedia

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   Garden furniture materials are designed for durability and weather resistance. Common options include wood like teak and cedar, known for their natural strength and aesthetics. Metal, such as aluminum and wrought iron, offers sturdiness and style, while plastic and synthetic rattan are lightweight, low-maintenance, and resistant to the elements.

3. Diabase - Wikipedia

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   Diabase can also be cut for use as ornamental stone for countertops, facing stone on buildings, and paving. [21] A form of dolerite, known as bluestone, is one of the materials used in the construction of Stonehenge. [22] Diabase also serves as local building stone.

4. Flagstone - Wikipedia

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   The material that binds flagstone is usually composed of silica, calcite, or iron oxide. The rock color usually comes from these cementing materials. Typical flagstone colors are red, blue, and buff, though exotic colors exist. Flagstone is quarried in places with bedded sedimentary rocks with fissile bedding planes. Flagstones of various sizes.

5. Hole-in-the-Rock (Papago Park) - Wikipedia

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   In 1892, Charles Poston named and claimed "Hole-in-the-Rock". [1]Hole-in-the-Rock is a series of openings eroded in a small hill composed of bare red arkosic conglomeritic sandstone.

6. Masonry veneer - Wikipedia

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   Because the masonry veneer is non-structural, it must be tied back to the building structure to prevent movement under wind and earthquake loads. Brick ties are used for this purpose, and may take the form of corrugated metal straps nailed or screwed to the structural framing, or as wire extensions to horizontal joint reinforcement in a fully masonry veneer or cavity wall.

7. Yardang - Wikipedia

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   A yardang near Meadow, Texas) (USDA photo Yardangs in the Qaidam Desert, Qinghai Province, China.. A yardang is a streamlined protuberance carved from bedrock or any consolidated or semiconsolidated material by the dual action of wind abrasion by dust and sand and deflation (the removal of loose material by wind turbulence). [1]

8. Cast stone - Wikipedia

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   Cast stone or reconstructed stone is a highly refined building material, a form of precast concrete used as masonry intended to simulate natural-cut stone. It is used for architectural features: trim, or ornament; facing buildings or other structures; statuary; and for garden ornaments .

9. Sandstone - Wikipedia

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   Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks.