slgwv's photos with the keyword: balanced rocks

Hoodoos

22 Feb 2012 3 8 456
Fisher Towers, Utah, USA. A BLM (Bureau of Land Management) interpretive area near Moab. Balanced rocks like this have been used to infer the level of paleoseismic activity. It doesn't take much of an earthquake to knock 'em down! This sort of study was pioneered by Jim Brune, professor emeritus at the University of Nevada, Reno seismo lab.