Monday, 6 June 2011

rocky mountains

This morning as we were driving towards Gingee(famous for its fort and the ruler..Desingh Raja..) I was amazed to see some peculiar rock formations. What we normally see are small hilllocks or mountain ranges that have been formed after volcanic lava flows cool down along with all the burnt and fossilled tree truncks that the molten lava burns and chars on its way down hill.The shape is usually twisted forms of rocks and lengthwise striped rocks..ie the tree trunk fossills which have been petrified.What I saw now was a stunning sight of rocks of various sizes and shapes mostly oblong, round or elliptical,,,,, small medium and small sized, stacked one on top of the other, not with precision like the pyramids but casually thrown or heaped as it were by the ferocious po

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