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    A Mass rock (Irish: Carraig an Aifrinn) was a rock used as an altar by the mid-17th century Catholic Church in Ireland as a location for secret and illegal...
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  • Rock mass classification systems are used for various engineering design and stability analysis. These are based on empirical relations between rock mass...
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  • The rock mass rating (RMR) is a geomechanical classification system for rocks, developed by Z. T. Bieniawski between 1972 and 1973. Since then it has...
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  • estimating support of rock tunnels. RQD forms a basic element in some of the most used rock mass classification systems: Rock Mass Rating system (RMR) and...
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  • geotechnical engineering, Laubscher developed the Mining Rock Mass Rating (MRMR) system by modifying the Rock Mass Rating (RMR) system of Z. T. Bieniawski. In the...
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    The Mass rock of Portglenone (also called the 'Old Altar') is one of several hundred Mass rocks in Ireland. Located at Portglenone in County Antrim, the...
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    (2010). Pariseau, W. G. (1988), "On the concept of rock mass plasticity", In the 29th US Symposium on Rock Mechanics (USRMS), Balkema Adams, F. D.; Coker...
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    Maß (pronounced [ˈmaːs]) or Mass (Swiss spelling, elsewhere used for dialectal [ˈmas]) is the German word describing the amount of beer in a regulation...
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    to Esker to celebrate mass at the site of a local mass rock. On one occasion, around the 1790s, a priest was celebrating mass at Esker. An informer had...
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  • at the Rock? The History of Mass Rocks in Ireland, The Liffey Press. Pages 40-47. Tony Nugent (2013), Were You at the Rock? The History of Mass Rocks in...
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