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Sign commemorating the Ontonagon Boulder Location of Ontonagon Boulder. The Ontonagon Boulder (/ˌɒntəˈnɑːɡən ˈboʊldəɹ/) is a 3,708 pounds (1,682 kg) boulder of native copper originally found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States, and now in the possession of the Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
Smith's red rockhare, [4] [1] Smith's red rock hare [1] or Smith's red rock rabbit [5] (Pronolagus rupestris) is a species of mammal in the family Leporidae (rabbits and hares), and is the smallest member of the genus Pronolagus. The upperparts and gular collar are reddish brown in colour.
Live at Red Rocks '22 is a live album by Australian-rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, released digitally on 24 January 2023 on Bandcamp. It compiles the band's three three-hour marathon shows at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado throughout late 2022. The album overall contains 86 tracks from throughout the band's entire ...
Dolomite (also known as dolomite rock, dolostone or dolomitic rock) is a sedimentary carbonate rock that contains a high percentage of the mineral dolomite, CaMg(CO 3) 2. It occurs widely, often in association with limestone and evaporites , though it is less abundant than limestone and rare in Cenozoic rock beds (beds less than about 66 ...
Although outcrops of “red rocks” are known from a few other places in the Wellington area, the coastal exposure at Pariwhero is the most important as it provides some of the best evidence of the relationship between the “red rocks” and the enclosing greywacke sediments, supporting an explanation for their origin. [12]
Red Rock is an Irish serial crime drama series, set in the fictional seaside town of Red Rock, that first aired on Virgin Media One on January 7, 2015. [1] Focusing on the activities of the detectives of the local Garda Síochána station and townsfolk, three series of the programme were broadcast, concluding just over five years from the date of its debut, on January 8, 2020.
This conglomerate consists of pebbles and cobbles of white vein quartz, red and green quartzite, sandstone, red and gray chert, and red shale. The grayish-purple to grayish-red conglomerate and sandstone is cemented largely by hematite and microcrystalline quartz. The cobbles that it contains range in size from 2.5 in (6.4 cm) to 6.5 in (17 cm).
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located approximately 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, near Cochiti Pueblo. Managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), it was established as a U.S. National Monument by President Bill Clinton in January 2001.