How did Uluru, or Ayres Rock, come to be the only large rock in a large area of desert?

Answer 1

From 900 to 600 million years ago, much of what is today central Australia lay below sea level, in what is called the "Amadeus Basin". Rivers dumped sand and gravels onto this sea floor until about 550 million years ago, when parts of the Amadeus Basin began to uplift. Uluru is made of these sands and gravels. Over a period of 100 million years (from around 300 - 400 million years ago), the land mass containing the future Uluru collided with other continents - leading to folding, faulting and more uplift. This slow motion collision squeezed the sand and gravel sediments into rock - and also tipped them on their side through nearly 90°. Then the raised areas mostly just eroded away for the next couple of hundred million years.

Nothing to do with Jesus then.....................

Answer 2

At one time it was probably one of many or part of a much larger rock formation but eons of erosion have worn the other rocks down just as Uluru will eventually be worn down.

Answer 3

It is not a plug of rock...it is actually similar to an iceberg....1/3 above ground and 2/3 below...have you ever noticed when you siv flour..large lumps come to the surface and smaller grain sink....ayres rock is very similar to that...it over time has worked its way from deep underground this type of floating rock has a name, but the love of me I cant remember what it is called

Answer 4

It is a plug of harder rock surrounded by softer rock that has eroded away and left it exposed. Bill bryson's book about Australia covers this in some detail.

Another example is the granite plug that Edinburgh Castle sits atop in Scotland.

Answer 5

It beat up all the smaller rocks and told them to leave town.

Answer 6

These links should answer your question

Answer 7

Because thats where it landed.

Answer 8

ask jesus. he created it.