I immediately thought of a line in a song by Queen,
photograph by Unsual
Uniform, the line is from the song Killer Queen:
'dynamite
with a laser beam'
well maybe not the dynamite, but the rock at Saudi
Arabia’s Tayma Oasis certainly looks like it has been cut with a laser beam, the 4,000-year-old
geological rock
formation is made up of two large sandstone boulders supported by a natural
pedestal that appears much too small for its purpose, but what really draws
people’s attention is the perfect split between the two boulders,
most
geologists believe that the smooth split has a perfectly natural cause –
tectonic movement. The earth shifted only slightly, but enough to cause the
rock to crack in two. However, there are other scientists who believe that the
split is really a fault line, as the material surrounding faults usually tends
to be weaker and erode easier. There are been those who believe Al was formed
from a volcanic dike of some weaker mineral that solidified there before
everything was exhumed, or was it made by laser totting aliens?
if you are not familiar with Killer Queen here it is above, apparently Al Naslaa
is only one of many rocks in the Tayma Oasis that features a unique appearance,
but’s it’s this near-perfect split that makes it stand out amazing!
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