Ringing Rocks Piece #1

Field recordings from Ringing Rocks Park, Pennsylvania

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posted by nylon (7 comments total)

Cool! I didn't know about this phenomenon. You do very thought-provoking and engaging stuff, nylon.
posted by sciurus at 9:25 AM on June 30, 2006

nylon: metatalk about this.
posted by mathowie at 9:47 AM on June 30, 2006

Matt, those rocks don't ring themselves. The park is an instrument just as much as a guitar is.
posted by nylon at 10:01 AM on June 30, 2006

agreed nylon.
posted by hellbient at 10:44 AM on June 30, 2006

Righteous.
posted by Espy Gillespie at 11:14 AM on June 30, 2006

Why do they ring?
posted by cellphone at 11:14 AM on June 30, 2006

They ring mostly because of the concentration of iron and other metallic minerals in the rocks. Here's some more information. The rocks found in the Bell Rock Range in Australia exhibit similar properties.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 11:20 AM on June 30, 2006