Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 14

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 breathtaking 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.

Balanced Rock near Ben Amera Monolith, Mauritania

The Ben Amera in Mauritania is one of the largest monolith in the world. It is located close to the border with Western Sahara and the whole area is littered with rocks of varied sizes. Amongst these rocks is this amazingly balanced rock. Although most of the balanced rocks around the world are known by some identifying name, however this rock has no name (or atleast I couldn't find it).

Image from Panoramio is by mabut (Click on the image to enlarge it)

The incredible balance of this rock can only be visualised in its enlarged view. The wind swept sand and mabut's composition have further enhanced it. The Ben Amera monolith can be seen in the background.

View location in Google Earth / Google Maps

Credits: I am thankful to;

• Syzygy who brought this to my notice. He has made many great posts in the Google Earth Community including about Hungarian National Parks
• mabut for allowing me use of this image here.  His collection in Panoramio include some fantastic images.

Thank you Syzygy and mabut.