The valley of balls or Torysh, as it’s
called in Kazakh, is located at the Northern tip of the Western Karatau,
close to the town of Shetpe in Western Kazakhstan. The area consists of
plentiful ball-like rock formations strewn across a wide range of
steppe land. The balls sizes are vary, but most of them are 3 to 4
meters in diameter. So far, the phenomenon is not properly researched,
however various geological explanations from mega-spherulites
crystalline balls formed in volcanic ash and exposed by weathering to
cannonball concretions.
