[‘Potato Chip’ Rock](https://imgur.com/a/A8DggB9) in San Diego, California is a popular tourist attraction that sees hundreds of people hiking out everyday to get their picture standing on it.
Normally photos like this would have me concerned about people destroying nature but it has been around for decades and for whatever reason it seems to be very strong.
What kind of rock is this and how is it so thin yet able to support hundreds of pounds of weight without breaking?
In: Geology
It is not unusual for “How does that thing not fall over?” rock features to fall over. Just because they may have taken many centuries to get their current shape does not mean they have centuries left to go. To give a few examples among many, the rock feature called the Gendarme in Skye, Scotland, the feature with the same name in Seneca Rocks, West Virginia, and the Old Man of the Mountain at Cannon Cliffs, New Hampshire, all fell off in the past 40 years.
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