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Balanced Rock:
When water, wind, and chemicals act on the sandstone walls of these canyons, the results are sometimes remarkable. Balanced Rock, a 600 ton boulder, has been left perched on the canyon wall while most of the rock that once surrounded it has weathered away. Its sculptured form was determined by zones of weakness -- vertical joints (cracks), horizontal bedding planes, and soft layers in the rock.
Balanced Rock was once part of the canyon wall. Some day it will be part of the rubble on the canyon floor. |