Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 19
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.
This amazingly balanced rock known as "Thor's Hammer" is a
spectacular and classical example of a Hoodoo rocks. A geological name for tent
rock or fairy chimney. Such rocks are tall, thin spires of rock that protrudes
from the bottom of an arid drainage basin or badland and were created due to of
erosion processes whenever relatively hard rock overlays softer more erodible
rock, such as sandstone.
Thor’s Hammer is approximately 46 metres (150 ft) tall and is one of most
famous of the several Hoodoo rocks found at the Bryce Canyon national park.
Image from Flickr is by ccho
Image from Flickr is by DragonWoman
Image Source: Google Street View
Image from Flickr is by Wenjie Qiao
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Source of info: Earth Picture of the Day / Wikipedia
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