Have you ever tried to balance a card or a some other object? Do you realize how hard it is to balance an irregular object, like a rock on a small base? The hillsides below the Vermilion Cliffs is a wonderland of balanced rocks. Here are only three examples. I am sure that there are very detailed scientific theories for how these rocks are formed, but I am also sure that I don't fully believe the theories. There is always a component of unreality in balanced rocks.
As you can probably guess, this part of northern Arizona is not seismically active. Part of the wonder is not that these rocks exist, but that there are relatively few of them compared to all of the rocks on the hillside. All of these lovely formations are located along the road leading from U.S. Highway 87A to Lee's Ferry
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