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The Elephant Rocks, for which Elephant Rocks State Park is named, is a pile of residual boulders of weathered Graniteville Granite. It is a medium- to coarse-grained, muscovite-biotite alkali granite that, on the average, consists of 55 percent alkali feldspar, 40 percent quartz, and less than 5 percent mafic minerals.
uMhlanga, alternatively rendered Umhlanga, is a residential, commercial and resort town north of Durban on the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.It is part of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, which was created in 2000 and includes the greater Durban area.
A sailing stone in Racetrack Playa. Sailing stones (also called sliding rocks, walking rocks, rolling stones, and moving rocks) are part of the geological phenomenon in which rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without animal intervention.
Point of Rocks is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Frederick County, Maryland.As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 1,466. [3]Point of Rocks is named for the striking rock formation on the adjacent Catoctin Mountain, which was formed by the Potomac River cutting through the ridge in a water gap, a typical formation in the Appalachian Mountains.
QAPF diagram for the classification of plutonic rocks Devils Tower, United States, an igneous intrusion exposed when the surrounding softer rock eroded away. Intrusive rock is formed when magma penetrates existing rock, crystallizes, and solidifies underground to form intrusions, such as batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks.
At the 2000 census there were 8,139 people and 2,883 households residing in the CDP. The population density was 146.4 inhabitants per square mile (56.5/km 2).There were 3,088 housing units at an average density of 55.6/sq mi (21.5/km 2).
Rocks is the fourth studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released on 3 May 1976. AllMusic described Rocks as having "captured Aerosmith at their most raw and rocking."
Ignimbrite, a volcanic rock deposited by pyroclastic flows. Volcanic rocks (often shortened to volcanics in scientific contexts) are rocks formed from lava erupted from a volcano.