![]() In fact, the term “balanced rock” or “balancing rock” is stretched to describe several different types of rock formations. There are a lot of these rock formations around. Many New Agers are also skeptics, though for the most part they, like Fell, never were able to provide any credible proof for their theories. While not a geologist, he was an accomplished marine biologist at Harvard University who made a strong case for the hand of ancient civilizations. ![]() Barry Fell, author of America BC: Ancient Settlers in the New World (1976), was among them. Not that there aren’t skeptics of this theory. ![]() ![]() Over those two million years, he argues, these things happened. He considers the rock’s weight and age, and the fact that it is not native to the area where it is now to make the case for it being a “glacial erratic” - in effect, part of the trash that the glaciers scraped from the landscape as they moved across the North American continent, then dumped as they retreated at the end of the Ice Age. Steve Schimmrich, a geology and earth sciences professor at the State University of New York Ulster, goes into considerable detail on his website “Hudson Valley Geologist” about the unlikelihood of this being man-made. ![]()
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