Earth:Stone ball

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Short description: Spherical stone of natural or artificial origin

A stone ball, or "stone sphere", is a spherical stone object that may be of either natural or artificial origin. Different types of stone balls include:

Natural

  • Natural Stone Balls
    • megaspherulites
    • cannonball concretions
      • Moeraki Boulders
      • Rock City, Kansas
      • Torysh, Kazakhstan
    • Moqui marbles
    • spherical corestones created by spheroidal weathering
    • Cave pearls

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
Cannonball concretions