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unusual facts about rock formation



Islas Ballestas

Composed largely of rock formations and covering an estimated area of 0.12 km², these islands are an important sanctuary for marine fauna like the guanay guano bird, the blue-footed booby and the tendril.

Ottofelsen

The Ottofels ("Otto Rock"), named after Prince Otto of Stolberg-Wernigerode, is a tor and natural monument near Wernigerode in the Harz mountains of central Germany.

Profile Rock

Profile Rock, also known as the Old Man of Joshua's Mountain, is a 50-foot high granite rock formation located in Freetown, Massachusetts just outside Assonet village and near the Freetown State Forest.


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Babele

The Bucegi Sphinx is another rock formation in the same area, named for its sphinx-like appearance.

Banket, Zimbabwe

The name of the town is derived from banket rock formation: early settlers saw a conglomerate, which they hoped would bear gold, like the banket of the Witwatersrand gold fields.

David E. Skaggs Research Center

Named for U.S. Rep. David Skaggs who represented Colorado's 2nd Congressional District from 1987–99, the Skaggs Research Center was constructed at the base of the Flatirons rock formation* in Boulder, Colorado on land already owned by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC).

Demoiselles Coiffées de Pontis

The Demoiselles Coiffées de Pontis is a rock formation in Pontis, near Embrun in the French Alps, located on the edge of the Lac de Serre-Ponçon.

Détroit

Both were part of the rock formation Passion Fodder from 1985 to 1991 before they split up and Cantat moved on to establish his own famous band Noir Désir, whereas Humbert went on to join the American band 16 Horsepower, and later to Lilium and Wovenhand, amongst others.

Geologist

Geochronology: the study of isotope geology specifically toward determining the date within the past of rock formation, metamorphism, mineralization and geological events (notably, meteorite impacts).

Greifensteine

The Greifensteine is a rock formation in the Ore Mountains, Germany, between the towns of Geyer, Ehrenfriedersdorf and Jahnsbach.

Horn-Bad Meinberg

Horn-Bad Meinberg is the location of the Externsteine, a rock formation consisting of several tall, narrow columns.

Jeti-Oguz

Jeti-Oguz District, a region of Issyk Kul Province in Kyrgyzstan, where the village and rock formation are located

Jeti-Ögüz resort, Kyrgyzstan, home to a resort near the rock formation

Keedysville, Maryland

Keedysville is underlain by the Tomstown Dolomite, a carbonic rock formation of the Cambrian.

Lance Creek, Wyoming

Lance Creek is the namesake of the Lance Formation, a rock formation from the Late Cretaceous that has yielded fossils from a diverse number of species.

Lithophone

A rudimentary form of lithophone is the "rock gong", usually a natural rock formation opportunistically adapted to produce musical tones, such as that on Mfangano Island, in Lake Victoria, Kenya.

Mama Bhagne

The rock formation is a thematic motif of the movie Abhijan by Satyajit Ray, where the rocks are seen as symbols of human being carrying its sin accumulated over time.

Pegomastax

This specimen was found in Voyizane, Joe Gqabi District, Cape Province, in rocks of the upper Elliot Formation, a rock formation that dates to the early part of the Early Jurassic (HettangianSinemurian, approximately 200 to 190 million years ago).

Point of Rocks, Maryland

It is named for the striking rock formation on the adjacent Catoctin Mountain, which were formed by the Potomac River cutting through the ridge in a water gap, a typical formation in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians.

Pompey's Pillar

Pompeys Pillar National Monument, a large rock formation in Montana, USA, named after the column

Pompey's Pillar, Montana, an unincorporated community in Montana, named after the rock formation

Qacha's Nek

The town is home to Lesotho's first and only Snake Park, which is conveniently situated at the foot of the historic Letloepe hill/rock formation, where the cave of Qacha, the son of Baphuthi's Chief Moorosi and after whom the town is named, is situated.

Shoals, Indiana

Shoals is best known for the Jug Rock, the only free-standing table rock formation east of the Mississippi River.

The C'mons

This features a pop-up subsection called "C'mon!pedia", a mock Wikipedia-style article on the band, which fleshes out some details concerning the characters; specifically, it states that the C'mons are an "alternative rock formation out of Barcelona, Spain".

The Needles

A drawing of The Needles by Dutch landscape artist Lambert Doomer (1624–1700) made in 1646 depicts a rock formation with much stouter shape than that shown in Isaac Taylor's 1759 "one inch" map of Hampshire.

Yonaguni

Although the majority of the academic society regard the rock formation as natural joint, Masaaki Kimura, a professor of seismology in University of the Ryukyus and some media believe it is an artificial (or artificially modified) structure engraved or built 2,000 to 3,000 years ago.