Thursday, April 1, 2010

Ayers Rock


Ayers Rock also known as Ayers Rock, Uluru rock. This is an almost well-known large stone block, which is located in a desert in northern Australia. Because no one had found a large independent body Biyiersi still rock, so it is the world's largest single body of rock, which is a single piece of stone. Ayers Rock is a conglomerate, it is a 3.6 km 2 km wide, 335 meters above the ground. Ayers Rock there is a strange phenomenon, and its color with the angle of sunlight a day of transformation and change, and the red fire of the evening was the most spectacular. More on the interpretation of this phenomenon is that conglomerate in the iron content is high, when iron is oxidized lead rocks are red; another one quartz component in the reflected light will change to a different red hue. Ayers Rock is a whole, there is no cracks in the rock. Weathering of rocks at the top is comparatively smooth. In the hundreds of millions of years, rain washed downstream, the rock formation of many top-down groove side of the shallow pit. When heavy rain, the water droplets splashing on the rocks Pentium, very nice. Rock bottom in deep caves that do not reflect the local culture and history.

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