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  2. Rock balancing - Wikipedia

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    Rock balancing (also stone balancing, or stacking) is a form of recreation or artistic expression in which rocks are piled in balanced stacks, often in a precarious manner. Conservationists and park services have expressed concerns that the arrangements of rocks can disrupt animal habitats, accelerate soil erosion, and misdirect hikers in areas ...

  3. Cairn - Wikipedia

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    Stacked rock features have been noted to have religious significance to the Klamath and Modoc Tribes of indigenous people of the Western United States, the respective tribes prohibiting photography of or touching the stone formations. These cairn-like structures are noted to be constructed for ritual and prayer purposes.

  4. Russian cruiser Novik - Wikipedia

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    Novik was slightly damaged by three hits and two crewmen were killed. Novik reached the neutral German port of Qingdao; however, choosing to avoid internment, Commander Mikhail Fedorovich von Schultz chose to outrace its Japanese pursuers around the Japanese home islands towards Vladivostok, hoping to join with the Russian cruiser squadron ...

  5. Novik - Wikipedia

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    Novik may refer to: Novik (surname) Novik (beginner) [ ru ] , historical Russian term meaning a teenager from a noble, boyar , or cossack family enlisted to army or Opolchenie

  6. Russian destroyer Novik - Wikipedia

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    The first ship of its class, Novik was completed in 1910 at the Putilovsky Plant. She was originally designed by AG Vulcan Stettin. The class included 52 other ships in four groups: Derzky-class destroyer; Orfey-class destroyer; Izyaslav-class destroyer; Fidonisy-class destroyer; Novik was one of the best ships of the type during the First ...

  7. List of largest monoliths - Wikipedia

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    Monolith with bull, fox, and crane in low relief at Göbekli Tepe. The density of most stone is between 2 and 3 tons per cubic meter. Basalt weighs about 2.8 to 3.0 tons per cubic meter; granite averages about 2.75 metric tons per cubic meter; limestone, 2.7 metric tons per cubic meter; sandstone or marble, 2.5 tons per cubic meter.

  8. Dry stone - Wikipedia

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    Dry stone walls in the Yorkshire Dales, England. Dry stone, sometimes called drystack or, in Scotland, drystane, is a building method by which structures are constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together. [1] A certain amount of binding is obtained through the use of carefully selected interlocking stones.

  9. Old Harry Rocks - Wikipedia

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    Old Harry's Wife was another stack which was eroded through corrosion and abrasion, until the bottom was so weak the top fell away, leaving a stump. Hydraulic action is the main cause of erosion ( shear force of the waves) that damaged the rock and caused it to fall away.

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