Sandstone Collection (page 3)

Colossi of Memnon. Western colossus. Luxor. Egypt
Colossi of Memnon. Stone statues depicting pharaoh Amenhotep III (14th century B.C.) in a seated position. Western colossus. Eighteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom. Luxor. Egypt

Colossi of Memnon. Eastern colossus. Luxor. Egypt
Colossi of Memnon. Stone statues depicting pharaoh Amenhotep III (14th century B.C.) in a seated position. Eastern colossus. Eighteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom. Luxor. Egypt

Colossi of Memnon. Luxor. Egypt
Colossi of Memnon. Stone statues depicting pharaoh Amenhotep III (14th century B.C.) in a seated position. Panoramic view. Eighteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom. Luxor. Egypt

Garden of the Gods, near Manitou, Colorado, USA
A narrow gap between two sandstone masses forms the entrance to the Garden of the Gods, near Manitou, Colorado. The Garden contains strangely shaped isolated rocks of all shapes and sizes

Sopwith Model I: Stratified rocks / denudation
Black lines in this model represent coal seams, between lighter shales and sandstones. When separated the lower section shows a gently inclined valley floor

Mesa Encantada, New Mexico, USA, a sandstone butte, thought by some to be haunted. Date: circa 1910s

Switzerland - Lucerne the Lion Monument
Coloured lantern slide of the Lion of Lucerne. Designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 182021 by Lukas Ahorn, the statue commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French

Emmeline Pankhurst Grave Brompton Cemetary
The grave of Emmeline Pankhurst in Brompton Cemetery, London. The headstone, a celtic cross in red sandstone was designed by the sculptor Julian Phelps Allan (1892-1996)

A Tertiary Igneous Dyke
A Tertiary igneous dyke cutting through a sandstone deposit. The igneous rock pierced its way through the earths crust in a vertical fissure

The London Bridge rocks, Sorrento, Victoria, Australia
The weathered London Bridge sandstone rock formation at Sorrento, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia Date: circa 1907

Garden of the Gods, Colorado, USA - Cathedral Spires
Garden of the Gods, Colorado, USA - The Cathedral Spires (centre). Date: circa 1903

Coloured cliffs, Alum Bay, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England. Date: circa 1920s

Utah - Castle Gate, Price River Canyon Date: circa 1920s

Cephalaspid, fishes
Block of Old Red Sandstone from the Lower Devonian period about 400 million years ago containing the skeletons of cephalaspid fishes

Calcareous Sandstone, Bermuda 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Cheirolepis, fossil fish
A fossil fish from the Old Red Sandstone with minute square scales and a single dorsal fin

Thursius pholidotus, fossil fish
This shows a Devonian fish originating from the Old Red Sandstone near Thurso, Scotland

Millstone Grit, Stanage Edge, Derbyshire
A Millstone Grit outcrop at Stanage Edge, Derbyshire. Old, discarded mill stone wheels can bee seen in the foreground

Common rock types
A collection of common rock types - left to right - Igneous (granite), sedimentary (sandstone) and metamorphic (schist)

Ripple-marked sandstone
Tide formed, symmetrical, ripple marks shown here in this specimen of fossilised in sandstone

6 million year old fossiliferous sandstones

Sandstone is formed by loose grains of quartz compacted and cemented together

Hones for sharpening metal edges
The longest hone here dates back to the 12th century and was discovered in Winchester however the rock type matches specimens of schist from quarries in Eidsborg in Norway

Rhynchosaurus footprints
Fossil footprints made by Rhynchosaurus on a slab of Triassic, Keuper Sandstone from a quarry in Rathbone Street, Liverpool. Dimensions of slab are 5 inches x 6 inches

Sandstones
A collection if sandstones showing colour variations. Clockwise from the left: green Ightham Stone, brown St Bees, beige L Coal Measures from Derbyshire and striped from Stirling

Quartzite

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