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Another Sar-e Sang Lazurite crystal, with the classic deep azure-blue color. Crystal is 4.5 cm wide. Sar-i Sang (or Sar-e Sang) (lit. "stone summit" in Persian) is a settlement in the Kuran Wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, famous for its ancient lapis lazuli mines producing the world's finest lapis. [1]
Mountain Ranges of Yellowstone. Yellowstone National Park, located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, though the park also extends into Montana and Idaho and its Mountains and Mountain Ranges are part of the Rocky Mountains.
The stone may have been associated with other Bronze Age ritual monuments in the area, including one other standing stone, [4] and a series of barrows that extend up to 4 miles (7 km) to the west. [3] The stone is mentioned in antiquarian records as early as 1613, and was later adopted as a St Breock parish boundary marker. [3]
Its summit straddles the border between Syria and Lebanon [2] and, at 2,814 m (9,232 ft) above sea level, is the highest point in Syria. [ 3 ] On the top, in the United Nations buffer zone between Syrian and Israeli-occupied territories, is the highest permanently manned UN position in the world, known as "Hermon Hotel", [ 4 ] located at 2814 ...
A cairn marking a mountain summit in Graubünden, Switzerland. The biggest cairn in Ireland, Maeve's Cairn on Knocknarea. A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound.
Lingmoor Tarn, an attractive mountain lake about 200 metres (about 650 feet) in length with a couple of small islands, lies 600 metres (about 650 yards) north of the summit. One kilometre (0.6 miles) north of the summit of the fell stands another topographic feature; this is the detached rock pinnacle of Oak Howe Needle.
The "Peñol" is 285 metres (935 ft) long and 110 metres (360 ft) wide. It has some breaks, one of which was used to construct the 740 steps of the stairway [6] to the summit. The Stone of Peñol is composed of quartz, feldspar and granite.
Stony Man Mountain viewed from Hawksbill in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.. Stony Man Mountain, also known as Stony Man, is a mountain in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia and is the most northerly 4,000 foot peak in the Blue Ridge Mountains. [1]