Re: Living rock?

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:18:29 -0700, Evan Kirshenbaum <kirshenbaum@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

ram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Stefan Ram) writes:

naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Christian Weisgerber) writes:
including living rock as well as precious and semi-precious stones;
ceramic; metal, including coins)."
What does "living" mean when referring to rock?

What was wrong with

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_rock

?

For one thing, none of those would appear to be "durable materials"
nor fall under the heading of "stone". For another, none of the
specific pages that page points to (of the ones I spot checked)
appears to assert that they are called "living rock". There's one
that points to a web page whose title calls them "the living rocks of
Mexico", but even it doesn't seem to claim that that's more than a
nonce metaphor.

Though I don't think the term is used in the article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalibela

gives example and pictures of churches hewn from the living rock as opposed to
being built of quarried stone.


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