Lightmark Logo
Homebutton
Photograhy Button
Blog Switch
In ligth we trust
Themenbalken
  Australia PreviewOverviewNext
 
    Lightmark No.81, Wave Rock, Hyden Wildlife Park, Western Australia, Light Painting, Night Photography.  
  Lightmark No.81 Wave Rock, Hyden Wildlife Park, Western Australia  
   

 

PreviewNext
   

Wave Rock is a natural rock formation that is shaped like a tall breaking ocean wave. The "wave" is about 14 m (47 ft) high and around 110 m (350 ft) long.

Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of 2.63 billion year-old biotite K-feldspar porphyritic monzogranite that is part of the Yilgarn Craton.

Wave Rock is a spectacular example of what geomorphologists call a "flared slope." A flared slope is a concave-upward or -inward bedrock surface that is typically found around the base of inselbergs, bornhardts, and granitic boulders and also on their higher slopes. Flared slopes like Wave Rock are particularly well developed in granitic landforms of south-western and southern Australia. The flared slopes are argued to have formed by the concentrated chemical weathering around the base of an inselberg by groundwater.


 
       
    This article uses material from the Wikipedia article which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0  
  line
      S 32°26'37.45" E 118°53'52.76"
  Cenci and Jens About Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke

 

Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke travel around
the world, turning night into day.

With flashlights and torches, the photographers
set their Lightpaintings in unusual landscapes.
The photographs have been pubished in major
international magazines and books.


read more >

Earth Map Wave Rock
 
line
 
© cenci goepel + jens warnecke