Friday, September 24, 2010

In balance



I spend a lot of time wondering how the process of erosion alone can create some of the extraordinary rock formations visible in Arizona and Southern Utah. This pair of rocks is fantastic example. I have no way of measuring the weight of the rock on top, but it is larger than a large room of a house. The smaller of the two rocks is about the size of a mini-van. All of the weight of the larger rock is resting on the two small points of the smaller rock. I suppose you could get a little nervous walking around this formation had it not been there for a very long time.

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