Pinnacles Desert

The pinnacles desert 

The Pinnacles desert contains a formation of rocks considered most sublime, that is, the most mediocre rock known as limestone. 

Held within these bleached pyres are the souls of eons of crushed shells condensed into a phallic shape as the ultimate piece of graffiti against god.

 Much like many things there are a couple of theories as to how they formed. One theory, another theory, and a Third way. That’s right, one theory vehemently believes that These deserts invented Tony Blair’s election platform. Blair’s third way is the only thing I know about British politics, so enjoy this reference while it lasts. 

According to their website, The Pinnacles were mistaken for the ruins of an ancient city by Dutch sailors off the coast in 1700. And looking at it now I am reminded of the desert ruins in pokemon emerald and pokemon black.

 I wouldn’t be surprised if one of these is a regirock rager that has popped from sniffing that Gympie-gympie too hard. How many more phallic pokemon references am I willing to put in my Ancient lithic formation video? As many as I can think of, so one. 

This Karst (formation created by dissolving rocks) has a couple of notable peculiarities according to an article by Matej Libar and John A Webb in 2014. One of them was that unlike formations made from similar but better cemented limestones in other parts of the world the Nambung Pinnacles lack influence from joints and fractures. 

Another is that Nambung contained a lot of quartz residue, which was redeposited and often buried the pinnacles. If you asked me to break down that information further the closest thing I could do to that would be to actually smash these limestone formations to pieces with my bare hands, a task both too painful and too illegal to do... Unless your last name is paul.