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The Entrada sandstone at the base erodes more quickly than the rock on top. One day it will fall down, just as its neighboring balanced rock did about 35 years ago.
I went back to the same spot a few days later on a bright, sunny day, and took this shot: flic.kr/p/qHsCmk
The sunshine cast more shadows, and didn't help the overall image.
Several years later, I was in Jordan and saw Wadi Rum, which also has a balanced rock. Here's the photo:
The fine sandstone block stands where Hyndland Street descending Partickhill is crossed by White Street.
The Bartholomew's street maps of Glasgow in the 1860s show a proposal for a series of these palatial blocks, ascending to a south-facing crescent split by a street heading north to join Victoria Crescent Road. Only fragments of the grand plan were realised.
This block (about half its intended length) appears on the map of 1876, by which year the street pattern has been modified, the line of Highburgh Road defined.
Ziques, the neighbourhood bar restaurant, has adapted for the pandemic.
The following outcrops are located along the Grassy Cove Segment of the Cumberland Trail along Black Mountain, just southeast of Crab Orchard, Tennessee.
The valley or cove floor is actually a limestone sink, with these huge boulders lining the tops of the surrounding mountains. You will find rugged sandstone, bejeweled with pure white quartzite pebbles, and a maze of convoluted, fluted corridors, strange, stack-stoned chimney rocks and pillars, unexpected windows and passageways winding in glorious confusion.
These drops-offs stretch the entire width of the river making a bunch of waterfalls. What a wonderful place! We visited these falls on a bright, sunny, high-contrast day, so I did not get good photos. It looks like morning or a very overcast day, would be best for these falls.
This peculiar weathering pattern is found in sandstone on the south coast of British Columbia. This one is on a beach just North of Bowser on Vancouver island. This honeycombing is very strange and it appears to be the result of the actions of salt percolating into the rock and then soaking and drying out repeatedly. The exact mechanism is a bit of a mystery. For those who want to explore this more, here is scientific paper about it.
This view is from the mountain roadside above Sandstone Falls near Hinton, WV. This is about two thirds of the entire width of the waterfall. Another segment of the falls is obscured by rocks and trees from this viewpoint but is located outside this image near the upper right corner of the picture.
Ivy just growing and growing - each year I always have to cut it back or it might just take over!!
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Apologies for being more or less absent from Flickr - I appear to be uploading some photos and disappearing but that's because I've been somewhat busy this week! Hopefully, back to normal soon!
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