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Unsolved mystery of Racetrack Playa, where rocks sail

New Delhi: The Racetrack Playa in California is a place of stunning beauty and mystery. The Racetrack is a playa--a dry lakebed--best known for it's strange moving rocks. No one knows how, but the stones

PTI Updated on: April 27, 2013 7:18 IST


Some of these rocks weigh several hundred pounds and have traveled as far as 1,500 feet, which leaves us with the question: "How do they move?"



The stones move only every two or three years and most tracks develop over three or four years.

Stones with rough bottoms leave straight striated tracks while those with smooth bottoms wander. Stones sometimes turn over, exposing another edge to the ground and leaving a different track in the stone's wake.

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