Rock in a hard place

[mbrager]

In Fish Creek Park on a hillside.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/4504596758_13d4a8b894_b.jpg

[QuietOne]

Cool! Looks like sandstone, which often has fossils in it. Did this slab of shattered stone?

[Bambi]

really interesting rocks there! How on earth did they get there?

[mbrager]

It looked to me like there was a mini-landslide where a small cliff broke off from a hillside, bouncing rock into the bent trees, some of which snapped off and/or were uprooted. There was a lot of debris farther down the slope, the bottom of which is a creek. Winter damage caused perhaps by water getting into cracks and expanding and contracting with temperature changes.
Mike