Tuesday, July 01, 2014

The Three 'Rocks'

The drive from Alice to Uluru passes this, the forgotten rock which is Mount Connor, rising 300m above the plain. 

Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) is a short drive from,

the world renowned Uluru. What you see of Uluru is just the up-turned tip of a 5km slab of sandstone, the rest of which runs away under the ground to the north, I think. Or is it to the south?  The rocks originally horizontal layers, formed by compacted lake sediments from 130,000,000 years ago, have been turned upwards through 90 deg by earth movements and are seen today as almost vertical.

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