|Sep24-05, 08:58 PM||#1|
How does a rock become a stone?
I'm not sure if this question will make sense, but is there a difference between a rock and a stone and if so, please explain. I'm also curious as to when a rock can be called a stone, or vica versa. Thanks.
|Sep25-05, 03:37 AM||#2|
i normally recognise like this:
Pebble: smallest, grain sized
Stone: bit bigger, marble sized
rock: a bit more bigger: fist size.
|Sep25-05, 05:29 AM||#3|
Strctly speaking, there is very little difference- the two are often synonymous.
The main difference I can think of is that stone is normally only used to describe detached pieces of rock (rock can be detached, or as a mass). I never hear my lecturers talking about a stone-face, or the underlying stone, only rock face, etc. Describing a rock face as a stone face wouldn't be inaccurate as such, but very unusual. It's more a question of linguistics than earth sciences.
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