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Rough Rock, AZ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Arizona
Population (2000): 469
Housing Units (2000): 152
Land area (2000): 12.854034 sq. miles (33.291793 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 12.854034 sq. miles (33.291793 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61370
Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 36.414660 N, 109.855648 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Rough Rock
This page is about a sandstone in northern England. For the census-designated place in Arizona see Rough Rock, Arizona

The Rough Rock is a widespread unit of coarse sandstone which is a prominent landscape-forming feature in the Peak District and Pennines of northern England. It is assigned by geologists to the Yeadonian sub- stage of the Namurian stage of the Carboniferous period.

It is the most extensive of all of the sandstones of the Millstone Grit Group occurring throughout the Peak District, South and West Pennines and extending northwards into the central and northern Pennines.

It originated as a sheet of deltaic deposits spread across most of the Pennine Basin associated with major rivers flowing from the north and northeast.

Usage examples of "rough rock".

Sometime in the past an unknown who had feared the traps the sea laid had erected, on a wave-washed cone of rough rock sometimes completely hidden by the water, a cairn which appeared to be fused together.

Nirgal had thought he was beyond surprise at this point, but he watched round-eyed as they drove down the tunnel, its rough rock walls just outside the edges of the boulder car.

Kynes relaxed against the rough rock, sipping from a pungent cup of spice coffee.

As Maturen of the Taupo Rough Rock Trolls, it was within Kermadec's power to give them the aid they required in their search for the Ard Rhys.

The cave entrance was a hundred paces or so wide, and the roof so low that he could reach up and touch the rough rock.

Behind the door a stone corridor sloped away and disappeared around a corner, carved directly into the rough rock of the castle.