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La Tour Percee

This is a pretty cool rock outcrop in France. It's called La Tour Percee and it's located around here, in the Chartreuse mountains. Since I don't understand this geology at all, I'm gonna go ahead and attribute this to glaciers as well. After the break is a picture of it from another angle.

Balancing Stones

Found out about this little sucker today. It's in Garden of the Gods park in Colorado. Apparently there's more! Balancing rocks are found all over the world, most of them probably put in place by aliens or possibly glaciers. Incidentally, f'ing glaciers, how do they work?

See more balancing rocks after the break.

Stone bridges

Now if you're like me, you probably thought that bridges had to be made out of something lighter than water or they would sink. Apparently this is not true, as this lovely stone bridge demonstrates.

Irish stone walls, for sheep I think

Here's a picture of some stone walls in Inisheer on the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. I took it from this guy's Wikipedia page. Nice pic Wikidrone20000!

House made of stone (singular)

Picture stolen from the Daily Mail.

And here's a house made out of one big stone! Pretty neat, although I'm not sure how comfortable it'd be after the novelty wore off. Maybe novelty is the wrong word for living in a rock. 

The pictures raise as many questions as answers. Why does it have a roof? Do they have electricity? What is that giant rock doing in the middle of a field anyway? Did a glacier put it there? God? A group of tractors? Do the occupants take offence when people say, "what have you been living under a rock or something?" Do they live there by choice or due to some ancient, multi-generational curse? Where do they pee?

Stone Stuff Rocks!

So I'm going to put stuff made of stone on this blog.
Stone buildings, stone art, stone stuff. Let's start off with a golden oldie: Petra.