Sunday 1 May 2016

Natural Shape Of Rock Just Like An Ocean Wave

Wave Rock is a natural rock which is shaped like a breaking ocean wave. A wall lies above Wave Rock and about halfway up Hyden Rock. It collects and funnels rainwater to a storage dam. The wall and dam were constructed in December 1928 by the Public Works Department for the original settlers of East Karlgarin District.
Wave Rock is a natural rock which is shaped like a breaking ocean wave

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Hyden Rock is a granite inselberg, which consists of three domes. The central and western domes are separated by a deep valley, which is now occupied by a reservoir. The central and eastern domes are linked by a low platform. A multistage process of landform development created these domes. The initial step in the development of Hyden Rock was the subsurface alteration by weathering of granite bedrock beneath a lateritised land surface during the Cretaceous Period between 100–130 million years ago. Depending on the degree to which it was fractured by jointing, the granite bedrock underlying this surface was altered to varying depths beneath the land surface. This process formed underground "domes" of solid granite bedrock surrounded by deeply weathered, relatively loose, and disaggregated granite. Following separation of Australia and Antarctica and accompanying tilting of what became southwestern Australia, periodic erosion of the deeply weathered granite, which underlaid the surrounding land surface, exposed these buried solid bedrock domes over time as Hyden Rock.

Wave Rock is a natural rock which is shaped like a breaking ocean wave

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Wave Rock is a natural rock which is shaped like a breaking ocean wave

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Wave Rock is a natural rock which is shaped like a breaking ocean wave

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Wave Rock is a natural rock which is shaped like a breaking ocean wave

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Wave Rock is a natural rock which is shaped like a breaking ocean wave

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Wave Rock is a natural rock which is shaped like a breaking ocean wave

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