[Rockhounds] Why Scientists Fall for Precariously Balanced Rocks

[Paul]

Why Scientists Fall for Precariously Balanced Rocks
“They’re nature’s hilarious accidents.”
Sabrina Imbler, Atlas Obscura, January 9, 2020
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/precariously-balanced-rocks

A few accessible papers about balanced rocks;

Rood, A.H., Rood, D.H., Stirling, M.W., Madugo, C.M., Abrahamson, 
N.A., Wilcken, K.M., Gonzalez, T., Kottke, A., Whittaker, A.C., Page, 
W.D. and Stafford, P.J., 2020. Earthquake hazard uncertainties improved 
using precariously balanced rocks. AGU Advances, 1(4), p.e2020AV000182.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020AV000182

Bell, J.W., Brune, J.N., Liu, T., Zreda, M. and Yount, J.C., 1998. Dating 
precariously balanced rocks in seismically active parts of California and 
Nevada. Geology, 26(6), pp.495-498.
https://nbmg.unr.edu/staff/bell/documents/Bell%20et%20al%201998.pdf

Balco, G., Purvance, M.D. and Rood, D.H., 2011. Exposure dating of 
precariously balanced rocks. Quaternary Geochronology, 6(3-4), pp.295-303.
http://noblegas.berkeley.edu/~balcs/pubs/BalcoRoodPurvance_PBR_2011.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.