Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 23
The balanced rocks are a geological formation created due to
wind/water erosion or glacial melting. These precariously balanced rocks are
wonder of the nature and to a viewer it looks that these would topple by a
gentle human push or a wind force. However most of these rocks have remained
steadfast for past several thousand years though some were vandalised and pushed
over. To some scientists these rocks are a sign of seismic stableness of the
location.
This post is part of the series about these awesome and
breath-taking rocks around the world. List giving links to individual rocks can be seen here and a combined big page showing all the rocks can be viewed
here.
Devils Marbles Conservation Reserve
Devils Marbles (aka Karlu Karlu) Conservation Reserve, near Warumungu, Northern Territory,
Australia is a stunning landscape full of gigantic rounded granite boulders,
many of which are precariously balanced on top of another rock. Natural processes
of weathering and erosion have taken millions of years to created
many boulders of amazing shapes from the remains of molten lava.
Most famous of these boulders are two precariously balanced round boulders, which are
also called "Devil's Marbles". Besides these two rocks there are other round
rocks also in the region hence the name Karlu Karlu which is an
Aboriginal term for round stones.
Image from Pixabay is by pen_ash
Image from Flickr is by Tim Whitlow
Some other Amazingly Balanced Rocks in the Conservation Reserve
Image from Flickr is by Tim Whitlow
Image from Pixabay is by pen_ash
Image from Flickr is by Paul Coddington
Image from Flickr is by Rita Willaert
This one is ready to roll over but has remained steadfast for millions of years.
Image from Flickr is by Andy Tyler
Image from Flickr is by Werner Bayer
Nature's perfect clean cut in two halves.
Image from Pixabay is by pen_ash
Source of info and more info: Wikipedia / N.T. Government Fact Sheet (pdf)
View location in Google Earth / Google Street View
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