Striations in the rock face

@JudyEv (366163)
Rockingham, Australia
November 20, 2025 2:17am CST
Baladjie Rock is huge but on the first day of our second visit there, we walked to the top of the rock. It wasn’t really a hard climb if you went up the more gentle slopes. As always, photos don’t do justice to the height of the rock and I wanted to get a photo of the cairn at the top from ground level. Unfortunately, you couldn’t see the cairn from the bottom and we had to climb to the west of the main rock before we could see the cairn. The rock has a number of striations in it and I had to wonder how these came into being. You can hopefully see one of the ‘lines’ going from the lower left of the photo towards the top. The line is of much smaller stones and I have to wonder how such seams and channels came about. I never thought I’d show so much interest in rocks.
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snowy
@snowy22315 (199263)
• United States
20 Nov
Looks like the surface of the moon.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (366163)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Nov
Yes, I gues it does.
Eva James
@wolfgirl569 (125536)
• Marion, Ohio
20 Nov
Rocks can be very interesting.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (366163)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Nov
I'm finding them more and more so. I was never very interested once.
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Heather Echola
@GardenGerty (166593)
• United States
20 Nov
It looks like quite a climb.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (366163)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Nov
It was but luckily one side was a much gentler slope than the other and all walking rather than clambering over and up rocks.
Pitstop
@pitstop (15468)
• Australia
20 Nov
We visited the Flinders Ranges recently and the rocks there were very interesting. Some had layers visible and others had indigenous art!
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (366163)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Nov
It's a very interesting place. We drove through there a few years ago and did a bit of touring and walking.
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (91217)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Nov
Very interesting and I can even see some partial faces,
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (366163)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Nov
I'll need to go back and look for faces!
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Shiva
@Shiva49 (27643)
• Singapore
20 Nov
It looks like the surface of Mars. A rarity for me, a city dweller.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (366163)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Nov
It's pretty isolated out there but quite fascinating too.
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Amber
@AmbiePam (107179)
• United States
20 Nov
I’m with you. I mean, a rock is a rock, right? Wrong! I find them interesting too!
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (366163)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Nov
I was never much into them but I am more so now.
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Ptrikha_2
@ptrikha_2 (48755)
• India
20 Nov
Quite an interesting Rock Study! Sometimes we get started on something and just do not stop exploring it.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (366163)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Nov
I was surprised we spent so long there but didn't get bored in the least.
May2k8
@May2k8 (19323)
• Indonesia
20 Nov
The rocks also has a color pattern that cannot be expressed how attractive it is.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (366163)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Nov
This one had a lot of different colours. Some flowed like ribbons from the top of the rock to the bottom.
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changjiangzhibin89
@changjiangzhibin89 (17073)
• China
20 Nov
The rock looks like the one on a photo of Mars I have seen. I guess those striations are the result of rock weathering.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (366163)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Nov
Yes, I guess it's all to do with weathering. Some rocks you can see have just split apart. They must make a huge noise when they do that. This is only a small one but it's obvious it's broken apart.
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (206907)
• United States
20 Nov
Interesting. I see the line of smaller rocks.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (366163)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Nov
You have to wonder how they got there.
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