The Houston Chronicle reports on an intriguing rock that is the highlight of its self-named natural area. The Enchanted Rock of the Enchanted Rock Natural Area, once a part of the earth's interior, was pushed to the surface in an explosive display of natural change:" 'This huge mass of granite, molten material cooled at depth about 1.1 billion to 1.2 billion years ago. It has been exposed and eroded and exposed again. What we are seeing is a small nub of a much larger structure that runs indepth under much of central Texas,' says petroleum geologist Carter Keairns, former head of geology at Texas State University. 'When you are standing on Enchanted Rock, you are basically standing on top of a one-time magma chamber that probably fed volcanoes up above it,' "
The 425 foot-high Enchanted Rock is climbable with a trail that leads to the top. Views from the summit reportably make one feel connected to nature.
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