Typically, the rivers are streams of fresh water, but the great river rocks in Russia illustrates what is being done from the name, it is a messy mixture of huge boulders flowing down Taganay Mountains in the southern Urals, on the territory of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.
The great river rocks in the Urals region, Russia
The length of the river 6 km and an average currently 200 meters, where he displayed in some of the wide portions of up to 700 meters. It is believed that the river be during the last ice age, since about 10 thousand years. At the time, covered by layers of ice Taganay high mountain peaks and reached heights of up to 4,800 meters. Under the weight of this huge amount of ice, it crushed the mountains and the fragmentation of the millions of rocks that slid slowly when the ice melted to the bottom of the hill and the river formed a large rock.
As for the reason called "river", it is not because it is just like any other rivers, where the rocks where fixed motionless for thousands of years, but because of its similarity to other forms of rivers.
The river is full of different shapes and types of rocks, including compact and solid quartz rocks, including rocks, "Aventurine", a form of quartz, mica and Al containing iron and other compounds give effect sparkling shiny. And weighing up L 9-10 tons each, and reduced mass of the rocks in the river to a depth of up to 6 meters.
It is interesting that when you get close to the river rocks, hear the sound of a running river, and emit the sound of small tables that take place under the rocks. The river is not the only big rock in the shape of this on the ground, but there it is similar in size smaller spread in different parts of the Ural Mountains. There is also a similar river outside Russia runs the length of two kilometers on Mount Vitosha, Bulgaria.
