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.

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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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