About Ayers Rock?

Overview

Ayers Rock

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Ayers Rock (also known as Ayers Rock) base It has a circumference of about 9 kilometers, an altitude of 867 meters, a height of 348 meters from the ground, and a length of 3,000 meters. It is located in the center of the Australian continent, standing miraculously in the desolate flat desert, like a desolate tribute to a natural monument that transcends time, space and space. Scientists still cannot decipher the exact origin of this huge rock, which is unique in the world. Some say it is a meteorite that fell from space hundreds of millions of years ago, with two-thirds of it sinking into the ground and one-third floating on the surface; some say it was a meteorite that fell from space in Australia 120 million years ago. The deep-sea sediments that surface together with the continents may become an eternal mystery.

Discovering Ayers Rock

In 1873, a surveyor named William Christie Goss from South Australia crossed this desert when he was hungry and thirsty. , suddenly a huge stone mountain appeared in front of him. At that time, he thought he was hallucinating due to fatigue, but he did not expect that it turned out to be a strange monolithic huge rock. Because he was from South Australia, he named the big rock after the then Prime Minister of South Australia, Henry Ayers. In 1985, the Australian government officially handed over the management of this sacred rock to the local indigenous Anangu people. Now it has been opened into a national park, the English name is Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. This park is now listed by the World Natural and Cultural Heritage Organization Included in the protected list.

Ayers Rock

Ayers Rock is commonly known as our "navel on the human earth" and is known as one of the "Seven Wonders of the World". It has been 4- 600 million years of history. Now it has been turned into a national park, and hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world come here every year to view the boulders.

The huge single rock in the southwest of northern Australia is one of the tors (tor, an isolated huge weathered rock). Possibly the largest single rock in the world. This monolith (called Uluru by the local Australian Aboriginals) is composed of feldspathic sandstone and changes color depending on the height of the sun. This rock is most stunning at sunset, as the light turns it a flaming orange-red color.

Ayers Rock rises 335 meters (1,100 feet) above the surrounding desert plains and is oval in shape, 3.6 kilometers (2.2 miles) long and 2 kilometers (1.5 miles) wide. Grooves appear on the lower slopes due to erosion of weaker rock formations, while at the top there are gullies and depressions carved out by heavy water from rare heavy rains. The rock is located in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (called Ayers Rock-Mount Olga National Park when it was first established in 1958). There are some rocks at the bottom. The shallow cave, considered sacred by some Aboriginal tribes, contains carvings and paintings.

The rock was discovered in 1872 by Ernest Giles, who named it after former South Australian Prime Minister Sir Henry Ayers. In 1985, formal ownership of Ayers Rock was granted to the local Aboriginal people, who leased the rock and national park to the government for 99 years. Visitors can reach the site by car via Alice Springs (Alice Springs), 450 kilometers (280 miles) northeast. The architectural colors of the tourist resort near Ayers Rock blend in with the surrounding desert. Ayers Rock and the surrounding park were designated a World Heritage Area in 1987.

Cause

[2] The base of Ayers Rock is oval, shaped somewhat like a long loaf with slightly rounded ends. It is 3.6 kilometers long, about 2 kilometers wide, 348 meters high, and has a base circumference of about 8.8 kilometers. The rock is composed of gravel and has a high iron content. Its surface turns red due to oxidation and the overall color is red, so it is also called red stone. Abruptly on the vast desert, the Ayers Rock looks like a giant beast lying on the ground, or like a weather-beaten old man, standing here majestically for hundreds of millions of years. Due to crustal movement, the Amadeus Basin (Amadeus Basin) where the boulder is located pushed upward to form a large piece of rock. About 300 million years ago, another magical crustal movement pushed this huge stone mountain out of the sea.

Ayers Rock

After hundreds of millions of years of wind and rain, large tracts of sandstone have been weathered into gravel. Only this boulder has withstood the wind and rain with its unique hardness. It has been eroded, and there are no cracks or gaps in the whole, becoming what is called "erosion stone" in geomorphology. However, long-term weathering and erosion have made the top smooth and shiny, and formed some grooves and shallow pits of varying widths from top to bottom on the surrounding steep cliffs. Therefore, whenever it rains heavily, waterfalls will pour on all sides of the boulder, which is a spectacular sight.

The indigenous people call this stone mountain "Uluru", which means "the place of meeting and gathering".

Westerners call it "Ayers Stone". Its name can be traced back to 1873. A European geological surveyor named Christie Gauss came here to explore and accidentally discovered this wonder of the world. Since he came from South Australia, so the rocky mountain was named after the then Prime Minister of South Australia, Henry Ayers. What’s even more charming is that Ayers Stone seems to be a beautiful model in nature, “changing into new clothes of various colors” as the morning, evening and weather change. When the sun rises from the edge of the desert, the boulders are "dressed in light red", bright and magnificent; at noon, they are "dressed in orange"; when the sun sets, the boulders are colorful, It looks like a blazing flame burning under the blue sky; when night falls, it hurriedly "changes" into a tawny "evening dress" and gracefully returns to the embrace of Mother Earth.

There are different opinions

There are different opinions on the reason why Ayers stone changes color, and geologists believe that this is related to its composition. Ayers stone is actually a quartz sandstone with hard lithology and dense structure. The oxides on the surface of the rock will continuously change color when exposed to sunlight at different angles throughout the day. Therefore, Ayers Stone is called the "Colorful Monolith Mountain" and adds infinite magic.

Ayers Rock in the rain is full of scenery, with flying sand and rocks and violent rainstorms all very spectacular. When the wind and rain stopped, the waterfalls were running on the rocks and the water vapor was misty, and they looked like a girl wearing a silver veil. Several looming rainbows on the sunny side were like halos on the head, making them appear gentle and colorful. Rainwater formed many puddles in the rock gaps, and the rainwater flowing to the ground irrigated the surrounding blue-gray sandalwood, red gum, acacia bushes, desert oaks, dune grass and other plants, making Ayers Stone stand out with its vitality.

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