Rock Sculpture

To learn more about natural rock sculptures and caves, check out Caves by Rachel Lynette. Detroit, Ml KidHaven Press, 2005. 

Of course one rock alone, with its different sides and angles, is its own rock 

1 small, flat piece wood or large flat rock for base of sculpture 

Mosaic tile adhesive (available at craft supply stores) 

10 smcdl rocks and pebbles, different colors, shapes, 

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Over the eons, the flow and evaporation of water inside a cavern creates a stunning array of rock sculptures. Stalagmites grow upward from the floor, sometimes joining stalactites to form massive columns. Limestone dams create beautiful pools of water. Limestone draperies fall like curtains from water flowing around overhanging rock. Delicate mineral flowers sprout from the walls. All these features result from the aqueous solubility equilibrium of calcium carbonate. 

When it is completely done, let your Rock Sculpture dry overnight. 

Add glue to the top of the first rock or next to the first rock and place another rock there. You may want to let a few of the rocks dry firmly before building your rock sculpture higher. You can build an animal, a mountain, a castle, or even your own vision of Stonehenge. 

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They pass some sculptures formed of twisted rocks and spires. They are crimson and others shades of lavender and turquoise, and they smell like cinnamon. 

The minerals calcite and aragonite are polymorphs of calcium carbonate. Calcite is the more stable of the two, and aragonite is most often seen in objects made of speleothems, the rocks formed in solution caverns. Aragonite is also an important constituent in many materials of organic origin, such as mollusk shells and the outer skeletons of sand dollars and coral. Calcite is the major component of the rocks limestone and marble, and as such is found in collections as sculpture, building stone, in mosaics, and in inlay or in tarsia. 

A landform is a natural sculpture of the surface of the earth. Most landforms are produced by the actions of weathering and erosion, carving away material from higher elevations and depositing it down lower. Different kinds of rock erode at a variety of rates under particular climatic conditions. As softer rock is worn away the more resistant rock is exposed, producing another series of landform s. Other landform s develop from volcanic activity or movements along faults during earthquakes. Study of landforms reveals much about the deformation, stresses, and strains which have affected the rocks to date at Earth s surface. 

Figure 35.13. Blue / (eye), silica aerogel, rock, 35 x 15 x 16 cm. An aerogel sphere of a diameter of 2 cm was just gently pressed into the natural cavity of the head-form rock, in order to present a dialogue between the heavy and the ethereal sculptural medium (photograph and copyright MICHALOUS, 1/2008).

The evidence for this connection is like something that happened with the ekko sculpture in northwest Scotland from Chapter 2 (Figure 2.1). After the sculpture had been built, an archaeologist dropped by and found incisions in ekko s rocks. The archaeologist read the shape and depth of the incisions and concluded that the stones were older than everyone thought, and must have been used for a structure now lost. 

Figure 40 presents a photograph showing the priceless polished sculptured skull (Aztec civilization) under examination with the horizontal microscope of a transportable LabRam Infinity Raman spectrometer in order to confirm nondestructively that it really is composed of the suspected rock crystal, the transparent form of a-quartz [66]. 

Donovan DT (2011) WeUs Cathedral conservation of figure sculpture 1977-1986. Int J Archit Herit 5(6) 586-612. doi 10.1080/15583051003754112 Dom RI (1998) Rock coatings. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 

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