The Amazing Balanced Rock

The Amazing Balanced Rock (HMUXJ)

Location: Colorado Springs, CO 80904 El Paso County
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Country: United States of America
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N 38° 51.896', W 104° 53.842'

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Around 300 million years ago, the Ancestral Rockies once stood here. Over time, the forces of wind and water eroded the magnificent peaks into swift streams full of sediments. These sediments were eventually pressed and cemented into solid rock. The new rocks took the form of:
· Sands full of iron oxide creating red sandstone rock
· muds forming softer, more delicate shales and
· a mixture of sand and pebbles called conglomerate.

Balanced Rock was exposed more than 60 million years ago when the existing Rocky Mountains rose. To make its current shape, the soft, bottom layer of shale eroded much faster than the harder sandstone and conglomerate above. Amazingly, the narrow pedestal supporting Balanced Rock has held the 700-ton weight for thousands of years.

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Date Added Wednesday, October 15th, 2014 at 1:58am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)13S E 508904 N 4301793
Decimal Degrees38.86493333, -104.89736667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 51.896', W 104° 53.842'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 51' 53.76" N, 104° 53' 50.52" W
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Area Code(s)719
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 532-572 Garden Dr, Colorado Springs CO 80904, US
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