quarried

That describes a project receiving pyramid facing stones quarried from white Tufa limestone.

It is called that because when set it looks like the stone that could be quarried from Portland.

Huge, laser and drill-cut stones, some quarried hundreds of miles away, and also man-made (poured?) ultra-hard stones.

Sacsayhuamán in Peru has 100t+ stones that were quarried 35km from the fortress location and transported up a steep incline.

Stone blocks will be quarried, weathered, ground by glaciers and then subducted beneath the crust.

The temples were laid down with stone probably quarried from the trenches near the Sphinx.

Not far from Painted Rock Cave is a 300-acre area with a two-foot layer of terra preta quarried by locals for potting soil.

I was surprised to learn that most cobblestone was actually quarried rectangular blocks[1], used as ships ballast, discarded after cross-Atlantic voyages.

Now it gets a bit complicated because Portland (also Dorset) stone is also heavily quarried and you may be familiar with the term Portland Cement.

I know they were quarried far, far away but then moved via the Nile.

The accepted narrative was that the labyrinth was quarried by the Romans, and any digging would only reveal a smooth stone slab where it once stood.

It makes me think about how many ancient ruins don't exist simply because the people nearby didn't see reason not to reuse all that convenient unowned pre-quarried rock.

Quarried olivine is moved via conveyor belt through a 4km tunnel to the processing plant where it is crushed, dried and screened into different grades." When transporting mostly by ship, olivine ERW efficiency can remain >90% even with 1000+ kilometers of sea transit.

El-Baz suggests that the "moat" or "ditch" around the Sphinx may have been quarried out later to allow for the creation of the full body of the sculpture." This article is about new simulations that simply suggest how common yardangs might be.