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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena#Others
•  Info This granite stone is split by mechanical weathering. The black crystals absorb more heat than the white crystals. The black Crystals expand. The stone breaks
  I don't think this picture will make it. But I keep trying to promote such fantastic natural phenomena..
  All by -- Famberhorst (talk) 07:04, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Famberhorst (talk) 07:04, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Palauenc05 (talk) 08:01, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 15:47, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Comment I'm ignorant on this subject. Is this a natural phenomenon, or was the rock intentionally split (by humans)? — Rhododendrites ^talk |  21:50, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

• Frost weathering or more commonly called 'frost shattering' up here in the north during cold weather is a natural phenomena, but people here took advantage of the process before we had explosives. If you want to get rid of a big stone, you light a fire on and around it to heat it, and then cool it down fast with icy water, getting the rock to crack into smaller more manageable parts. Since this rock remains, it is a case of a natural process. --Cart (talk) 22:17, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

•  Support - Interesting enough and a good enough composition to support, IMO. I'd like to change "granite" to lowercase in the caption, though, and I don't know how to do that. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:14, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

   Done.Thanks for your reviews.

•  Support Simple and special -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:55, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support I never heard the phrase "mechanical weathering" and the cut looks too straight to be natural and those two rocks in the middle have no where to fall from but none of that affects its FP quality. Seven Pandas (talk) 02:48, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

• The rocks in the gap have probably been placed there to keep it open and to prevent people from climbing onto and into the stone to take selfies. These rocks can rock/roll back and the gap gets narrower. You don't want to be caught in that. --Cart (talk) 10:56, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 04:05, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support I remember learning about this in geography lessons years ago - we called it 'freeze-thaw weathering' back then. Certainly interesting enough for FP. Cmao20 (talk) 08:01, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 09:18, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Cart (talk) 09:33, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 15:44, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Isiwal (talk) 17:39, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Milseburg (talk) 16:10, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support I'm all broken up about this one ... Daniel Case (talk) 21:52, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

•  Question Have you already sought help?--Famberhorst (talk) 06:07, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 14 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 13:34, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Natural phenomena#Others