KorbenDallas
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I wanted to ask this question for a while now. Here is what we are being told:
Ok, I understand when some huge rock splits like the Split Apple Rock (allegedly) did in New Zealand.
What I struggle to consider a natural split is this.
KD: Do you have an opinion on this rock? What do you think happened to it?
- There are many natural occurrences that might puzzle a traveler.
- One of them is Al Naslaa Rock Formation, located in Tayma oasis, Saudi Arabia.
- The perfect slit between the two standing stones and the flat faces are completely natural. Note the small pedestals supporting the boulders.
- How long will they remain balanced here?
- How did the cut in the middle happen?
- Most likely the ground shifted slightly underneath one of the two supports and the rock split.
- Could be from a volcanic dike of some weaker mineral that solidified there before everything was exhumed.
- Or, it could be an old pressure crack (you see a parallel crack just to the right of it) that has been pushed/pulled apart some.
- Or, it could be an old (minor) fault line, since fault motion often creates a zone of weakened rock that erodes relatively easier than the surrounding rock.
- Al Naslaa Rock Formation
- What is the Al Naslaa Rock Formation in Saudi Arabia?
What I struggle to consider a natural split is this.
KD: Do you have an opinion on this rock? What do you think happened to it?
