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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. The movement of the rocks occurs when large, thin sheets of ice floating on an ephemeral winter pond move and ...
The sailing stones are a geological phenomenon found in the Racetrack. Slabs of dolomite and syenite ranging from a few hundred grams (few ounces) to hundreds of kilograms (pounds) inscribe visible tracks as they slide across the playa surface, without human or animal intervention.
#15 Sailing Stones. Large rocks that mysteriously move across the dry lakebeds of places like California’s Death Valley. This phenomenon occurs when a combination of ice, wind, and water creates ...
Jenny Lindfors, also known as the stage name Sailing Stones, is an Irish-Swedish singer-songwriter, vocalist, musician and composer. Under her own name she has released a solo album, When The Night Time Comes (2008) on Flock Music/ PIAS.
A variety of origins have been proposed for the term, including that such stones were taken from broken monuments of St. Nicholas Church in Great Yarmouth [1] or else the ruined church of St. Helens adjacent to the St Helens Road anchorage of the Isle of Wight where ships would often provision. The US Navy has it that the term may have come ...
A Swedish immigrant, [3] Olof Ohman, said that he found the stone late in 1898 while clearing land which he had recently acquired of trees and stumps before plowing. [4] The stone was said to be near the crest of a small knoll rising above the wetlands, lying face down and tangled in the root system of a stunted poplar tree estimated to be from less than 10 to about 40 years old. [5]
Sailing stones, where rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without human or animal intervention; Sculptures by American artist Tony Smith: Wandering Rocks, Lynden Sculpture Garden near Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Wandering Rocks, Lynden Sculpture Garden near Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The most striking aspect of the boulders is their unusually large size and spherical shape, with a distinct bimodal size distribution. Approximately one-third of the boulders range in size from about 0.5 to 1.0 metre (1.6 to 3.3 ft) in diameter, the other two-thirds from 1.5 to 2.2 metres (4.9 to 7.2 ft).