Elephant Rocks - Elephant Rocks State Park Missouri
Posted by: BruceS
N 37° 39.287 W 090° 41.278
15S E 703952 N 4170028
Huge rounded granite boulders located in Elephant Rocks State Park north of Pilot Knob/Ironton, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WM1NRT
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 06/10/2007
Views: 168
Huge granite boulders standing end to end like a parade of elephants. Standing
atop a granite outcrop, one of the largest elephant rocks, Dumbo, tops the
scales at a whopping 680 tons. About 150 billion years ago hot magma cooled
forming coarsely crystalline red granite, over the years the granite weathered
into huge boulders.
Also in the park is a former granite quarry which now has been filled with
water forming a lake. The granite quarries in the area were the largest in the
state with the granite used for building and paving stones. The red granite
currently quarried in the area is used mostly for monument stones.