with no water?
well that is what tourists do in Russia, when they visit Big Stone River in Taganai Park, in the southern Ural Mountains, spanning 6 km long, this gigantic conglomeration of boulders starts off as
several small “streams” with and average width of 20 meters that later join to
form a large stone river with an average width of 200 meters (in some places up
to 700 meters),
photograph Alexander
Petrov, scientists
believe that it is the result of a glacier breaking off from the higher peaks
of the Taganai over 10,000 years ago and flowing down into the valleys, global warming came along, the ice melted and the rocks/boulders were left where they were,
as an aside the rocks are aventurine, a type of quartz,
the layer of boulders, which has not moved an inch in thousands of years, some of which weigh up to 10 tonnes, is between 4 and 6 meters deep, which makes it almost impossible for vegetation other than lichens to grow in the “river”, a river without water, who would have thought it?
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