What are the mysterious rock formations at Al-Naslaa?

[jim mcnamara]

TL;DR

"Balanced" rock formations; good photos

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/al-naslaa-rock/

Terse description with a lot of photos. Al-Naslaa wins my vote for the weirdest one.

 

[Drakkith]

Interesting! Where's the ancient alien's guy when you need him?!

 

[berkeman]

Summary:: "Balanced" rock formations; good photos

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/al-naslaa-rock/

It's interesting how the cleavage of the first picture has a bit of mismatch between the two sides. I didn't read the article -- do they have an estimate for how much of the center portion of the rock was removed to make the two clean edges?

 

[jim mcnamara]

No estimates I can find. The crack is puzzling to say the least.

 

[Oldman too]

Hi, in the same vein as the thread title, this is worth visiting or at least doing an image search on.
Bisti badlands N.M. a couple of examples below.

 

[Oldman too]

Interesting! Where's the ancient alien's guy when you need him?!

A coincidence? the title to the second image in post #5 is "the aliens throne"