Stone ball
The terms Stone balls, "stone ball", "stone spheres", and "stone sphere" have been used to designate spherical stone objects of both natural and artificial origin. Different types of stone balls include:
Natural
Artificial
External links
Stone round shot (cannonballs)
Stone balls (spheres) of Costa Rica
Carved stone balls of Scotland
- Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, nd, Carved Stone Balls A gallery of carved stone ball photographs & information
- Marischal Virtual Museum, nd, ball, carved stone Aberdeen Museum's virtual gallery of their Carved Stone balls
Megaspherulites
- Baird, Bill, 1990, Stone Spheres, The Edinburgh Geologist, no 24 (Spring)
- Smith, R.K., R.L. Tremallo, and G.E. Lofgren, 2000, Megaspherulite Growth: Far From Equilibrium Crystallization, GeoCanada 2000 - The Millennium Geoscience Summit, Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists Annual Meeting.
Cannonball Concretions
- Hanson, W.D., and J.M. Howard, 2005, Spherical Boulders in North-Central Arkansas PDF version, 2.8 MB Arkansas Geological Commission Miscellaneous Publication n. 22, pp. 1-23.
- Heinrich, P.V., 2007, The Giant Concretions of Rock City Kansas PDF version, 836 KB BackBender's Gazette. vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 6-12.
- Irna, 2006, All that nature can never do, part IV : stone spheres
- Irna, 2007a, Stone balls : in France too!
- Irna, 2007b, Stone balls in Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland
- Leo Gav, 2007, Underwater stone balls
- Hokianga Tourism Association, nd, Koutu boulders Really nice pictures of cannonball concretions.
- Moeraki Boulders
- Rock City, Kansas
- United States Geological Survey, nd, cannonball concretion