Ringing Rocks are rocks that have the property of resonating like a bell when struck, such as the Musical Stones of Skiddaw in the English Lake District as well as the stones in Ringing Rocks Park, in Upper Black Eddy, Bucks County, Pennsylvania USA and the Bell Rock Range of Western Australia. Ringing rocks are also known as sonorous rocks or lithophonic rocks, as used in idiophonic musical instruments called lithophones.
Read more about Ringing Rocks: Ringing Rocks Park, Diabase Ringing Rock Boulder Fields in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Ringing Rocks Pluton, Jefferson County, Montana, Bell Rock Range, List of Sites
Famous quotes containing the words ringing and/or rocks:
“When we reached the lake, about half past eight in the evening, it was still steadily raining, and harder than before; and, in that fresh, cool atmosphere, the hylodes were peeping and the toads ringing about the lake universally, as in the spring with us. It was as if the season had revolved backward two or three months, or I had arrived at the abode of perpetual spring.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“But square-cut or pear-shape, these rocks don’t lose their shape!”
—Leo Robin (1900–1984)