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The Batu Pahat Well. The Batu Pahat Well (Malay: Perigi Batu Pahat) is a historic well at the village of Minyak Beku, Batu Pahat District, Johor, Malaysia.It was allegedly built during the 15th century by fleeing Siamese soldiers from the Malacca Sultanate, who chiselled the rocks around it in search of water. [1]
Minyak Beku Beach Minyak Beku in Batu Pahat District. Minyak Beku is a mukim in Batu Pahat District, Johor, Malaysia. [1] Kampung Minyak Beku is where the famous chiseled rock is located, a big rock about ten feet in size (beside the police station). The big rock was chiselled by the Siamese to contain fresh water.
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.
Stratigraphy as seen in southeastern Utah. The lithology of a rock unit is a description of its physical characteristics visible at outcrop, in hand or core samples, or with low magnification microscopy.
The Middle Rocks (Malay: Batuan Tengah; Jawi: باتون تڠه; Chinese: 中岩礁; pinyin: Zhōngyánjiāo; lit. 'Middle Rock Reef') are two uninhabited small rocks separated by 250 metres (820 ft) of open water at the eastern opening of the Strait of Singapore on the western edge of the South China Sea .
QAPF diagram for classification of plutonic rocks. A QAPF diagram is a doubled-triangle plot diagram used to classify intrusive igneous rocks based on their mineralogy.The acronym QAPF stands for "Quartz, Alkali feldspar, Plagioclase, Feldspathoid (Foid)", which are the four mineral groups used for classification in a QAPF diagram.
Phaneritic rock: Anorthosite from the Stillwater Igneous Complex (Neoarchean; Montana) Igneous textures include the rock textures occurring in igneous rocks.Igneous textures are used by geologists in determining the mode of origin of igneous rocks and are used in rock classification.
A magmatic dike (vertical) cross-cutting horizontal layers of sedimentary rock, in Makhtesh Ramon, Israel. In geology, a dike or dyke is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body.