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Canstralian t1_j4r4j0f wrote

It's a load pyramid under each boulder. The sediment under compression was more resistant to erosion than the surround loose sediment. Great photo for teaching civil engineering students

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Deesnuts77 t1_j4r9ha5 wrote

To my untrained eye I feel like this was created by rain erosion and the rocks worked essentially as umbrellas for the ground beneath each one.

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ShexyBaish6351 t1_j4rasek wrote

Decent pic... but I'm wondering who would really think these look man made?

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MarkNutt25 t1_j4rfzqk wrote

Kind of reminds me of Bryce Canyon, here in the US.

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Vidableek t1_j4rom7a wrote

Glad you specified SOUTH Tyrol, otherwise it would have been confusing.

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Strong-Internal-726 t1_j4s8esg wrote

Just on the outskirts of Grand junction Colorado you can see the same thing.

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Seiliko t1_j4seezv wrote

Replying to ShexyBaish6351 (#1,387,974)

Maybe people who don't know a lot about how erosion works. At least my first reaction was "how else did those big rocks get there?" and then I read somde comments and it all made more sense. I had just never considered that rocks would have this effect on the ground.

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Yerawizurd_ t1_j4sgnfu wrote

Serious question, who thought this looks human made?

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Thorazine88 t1_j4sgvd4 wrote

This reminds me of the “Pillars of Creation” photo that the Hubble Space Telescope took.

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LSeww t1_j4sj9xs wrote

erosion is a social construct

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dimmu1313 t1_j4skdjc wrote

it doesn't look human made, it looks like erosion.

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Bowman_van_Oort t1_j4slz43 wrote

they're beautiful but something inside my monkey brain just wants to destroy them

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TheRealLifeJesus t1_j4stz0m wrote

How long does it take for this to happen? Or how old are these structures in particular? The landscape around it looks pretty unstable so I can’t imagine it’s outrageously old

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doe-poe t1_j4t5wd1 wrote

You can tell in the comments who didn't go outside as a kid.

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cvelde t1_j4t64tg wrote

Replying to Canstralian (#1,387,635)

I thought that too at first glance, but there is no way the smaller ones produce any significant compression. (especially that tiny one on the huge pyramid on the right) They just protect the loam underneath them from rain and thus softening.

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acker1je t1_j4t6twn wrote

Looks like a bunch of rocks blasting off to space

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GrapeJuice2227 t1_j4t8ht1 wrote

I’ve seen this happen before! Just at a much smaller scale. Whenever it rains hard, these dirt towers usually appear beneath pebbles. I never knew that it happened to boulders though! Thought the ones in the photo were really small at first, lol

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HammerLuigi t1_j4t98lq wrote

Such a cool place, looks impossible except it's photographed

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Cometstarlight t1_j4tcp1x wrote

Oh whoa, I've never seen something like this before. That's so cool!

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j3kwaj t1_j4tfrw1 wrote

TBF, I saw a guy put those rocks there a couple million years ago.

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scrogbad t1_j4tnui7 wrote

Woah looks like massive rock fungus

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lRhanonl t1_j4u6f7j wrote

How does this look human made... Not at all....

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macellan t1_j4u8jaj wrote

They look so fragile. Is this under protection?

There are similar formations in and around Cappadocia, Turkey and we call them "Fairy Chimneys". (peri bacaları)

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OlivierStreet t1_j4uh484 wrote

Is this where they got inspiration for the “Spiders” in Monster Hunter?

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Ki0ji t1_j4uqq85 wrote

Lol I live like 20 minutes from those, fun fact, those aren’t fake

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Ruscoe24 t1_j4uxq4d wrote

It’s actually in Trentino not South Tyrol

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nanosam t1_j4v4fey wrote

That does not look human made at all to me

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stillyou1122 t1_j4vha49 wrote

Nice shot! I thought this was a painting at first

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Fearless_Guitar_3589 t1_j4vygc4 wrote

doesn't look man made to me, I did erosion control after some fires in CA, you see mini ones of those all over (only 2-3" tall, but the same. a little pillar with a stone on top. the action of water hitting bare soil loosens the dirt and allows it to be carried away, the stones on top stop the drops from hitting and loosening the soil underneath.

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rhylos360 t1_j4w297k wrote

This is how Stonehenge was done. Mystery solved.

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Rinimur t1_j4y8sws wrote

Looks like mushrooms 😍😱

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bluntasticboy t1_j4zb5ic wrote

I wanna swing a sword through the middle of one just one to see it chop and drop but I’d never actually they are beautiful

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Canstralian t1_j56f895 wrote

Replying to cvelde (#1,391,836)

Or it is possible that it had a larger rock on it which has fallen off and if you were able to speed up time you would see this pyramid erode faster then the surrounding.

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cvelde t1_j5787at wrote

Replying to Canstralian (#1,419,038)

Suppose that is the case, why then has the pyramid already eroded to more or less exactly slightly under the size of the small rock like all of the rest of them? The Picture must have then been taken at the exact right moment in time to look like this, seems very unlikely to me.

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mcjohnson415 t1_j58oc2n wrote

We climbed a glacier up Mt Shasta in northern California in 1975 that had large rocks set on spires of ice, like this. The clouds became a thick fog with 20 foot visibility. We could hear spires snap and rocks roll just beyond our sight. It was frightening, yet magical at the same time.

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mcjohnson415 t1_j58p95w wrote

Replying to rbloedow (#1,394,492)

You don’t need a science course, just pay attention. Much of ‘scientific discovery’ is just observations recorded. People have been observing for a long time, writing it down is what is relatively new.

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