Impossible balance

martin-images

This is another shot from Brimham rocks, this one is real and not altered, the rock must weigh hundreds of tones and is balanced on just a small part, 3ft x 2ft, of the original thats weathered over many hundreds of years, this is also my vision of the prehistoric looking place
Martin

PremiumMalt

Whats the history of this rock?

martin-images

PremiumMalt wrote:

Whats the history of this rock?

From web, quote
Some 320 million years ago, an enormous river cascaded sand and grit from granite mountains in northern Scotland and Norway, forming a delta which covered half of todays Yorkshire. Multiple layers of grit and sand along with rock crystals, built up to form the tough sandstone known as Millstone grit. It is exposed sections of this eroded sandstone that can be viewed today at Brimham Rocks.

A feature of the rocks is their cross bedding, caused by the uneven floor of the river channel, which created inclined layering which dips in the direction of the water current. Most of the rocks owe their strange shapes to to erosion during and after the Devensian glaciation, the last Ice Age of the Pleistocene in Britain, between 80,000 and 10,00 years ago. Sand blasting at ground level wore away the softer layers of rock, resulting in a tiny plinth with a massive top.

leaforte

clap Lucky you! I wasn't able to see it myself, so thank you for sharing.

wfeller

Ok, that's very, very cool.