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15 MOST Unbelievable Rock Formations From Earth's Past

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Aug 11, 2024

 

15 Unbelievable Rock Formations. Across our planet, rock formations bear witness to the relentless forces of erosion, weathering, and tectonic activity that have molded the Earth across millions of years. While many blend seamlessly into the landscape, others break the mold with their strange and unusual appearances. These extraordinary geological marvels not only captivate travelers and nature enthusiasts but also tell the profound story of Earth's dynamic past. Prepare to be amazed as we journey to the far corners of the globe, unveiling nature's most extraordinary masterpieces in our exploration of the fifteen most Unbelievable Rock Formations..

 

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Nunber 8 : Devil's Tower - Wyoming

Bear Lodge is the indigenous name for the iconic 867 foot free-standing igneous monolith

commonly known as Devils Tower.

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Elevation : 5,112 ft (1,558 m)

Devils Tower(Bear Lodge) in Wyoming Devil's Peak

 The first view of Devil’s Tower as seen along Wyoming Highway 24 shows just how high the monolith

rises above the surrounding landscape in northeast Wyoming. (Dawn Wilson Photography)

 

 

Devils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge) is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (264 m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet (1,558 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower National Monument was the first United States national monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt.[9] The monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres (545 ha).

 

Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming.

 

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Indigenous names for the monolith include "Bear's House" or "Bear's Lodge" (or "Bear's Tipi", "Home of the Bear", "Bear's Lair"); Cheyenne, Lakota: Matȟó Thípila, Crow: Daxpitcheeaasáao ("Home of Bears"[10]), "Aloft on a Rock" (Kiowa), "Tree Rock", "Great Gray Horn", and "Brown Buffalo Horn" (Lakota: Ptehé Ǧí).

 

 

Nunber 7 : Arches National Park - Utah

 

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Arches National Park is a national park of the United States in eastern Utah. The park is adjacent to the Colorado River, 4 mi (6 km) north of Moab, Utah. The park contains more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including the well-known Delicate Arch, which constitute the highest density of natural arches in the world. It also contains a variety of other unique geological resources and formations. The national park lies above an underground evaporite layer or salt bed, which is the main cause of the formation of the arches, spires, balanced rocks, sandstone fins, and eroded monoliths in the area.

“Ancient Art,” in the Fisher Towers near Moab, Utah.

 

The park consists of 310.31 km2 (76,680 acres; 119.81 sq mi; 31,031 ha) of high desert located on the Colorado Plateau. The highest elevation in the park is 5,653 ft (1,723 m) at Elephant Butte, and the lowest elevation is 4,085 ft (1,245 m) at the visitor center. The park receives an average of less than 10 in (250 mm) of rain annually.

 

Administered by the National Park Service, the area was originally named a national monument on April 12, 1929, and was redesignated as a national park on November 12, 1971. The park received more than 1.8 million visitors in 2021. From April 1 through October 31, a timed entry reservation is required to visit the park between the hours of 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. 

 

The red martian-esque landscape. 

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On top of the corkscrew

 

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Nunber 6 : Al Naslaa -  Tayma Oasis, Saudi Arabia

Tayma - Arabian Rock Art Heritage

Deep in the Tayma Oasis in Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk province lies a 4,000-year-old rock formation with an unusual feature: It is split down the middle by a straight cut with the precision of a laser beam.

 

Al Naslaa

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Tayma Oasis

 

Al-Ula is notable for its natural heritage and rich history. It is home to important historical and archaeological sites. (RCU)

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Tayma /ˈteɪmə/ (Taymanitic: 𐪉𐪃𐪒, TMʾ, vocalized as: Taymāʾ; Arabic: تيماء, romanized: Taymāʾ) is a large oasis with a long history of settlement, located in northwestern Saudi Arabia at the point where the trade route between Medina and Dumah (Sakakah) begins to cross the Nafud desert. Tayma is located 264 km (164 mi) southeast of the city of Tabuk, and about 400 km (250 mi) north of Medina. It is located in the western part of the Nafud desert.

 

Nunber 5 : Marble Caves - Patagonia

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Patagonia's Marble Cathedral, Chapel and Cave.

Formed by over 6,000 years of erosion, these unique geological formations are relatively unknown, and yet they never fail to leave those lucky wanderers who stumble upon them absolutely speechless.

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Lago General Carrera 

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Nunber 4 : Drangarnir - Faroe Islands

 

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Vágar’s hotspots

 

Beautiful Drangarnir in Vágar 🇫🇴 One of the most unique sights in the Faroe Islands are “Drangarnir”. Drangarnir are two sea stacks between Vágar and the islet Tindhólmur. The distinct names of Drangarnir are Stóri Drangur and Lítli Drangur which can be translated into Large- and Small sea stack.

 

 

Drangarnir is the collective name for two sea stacks between the islet Tindhólmur and the island Vágar in the Faroe Islands. The individual names of the sea stacks are Stóri Drangur (en: Large sea stack) and Lítli Drangur (en: Small sea stack).

 

Nunber 3 : Moeraki Boulders - Koekohe Beach of Newzealand

Boulders of varying sphericity broaching the Otago coast

The boulders at sunrise

 

 

The Moeraki Boulders (officially Moeraki Boulders / Kaihinaki) are unusually large spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand between Moeraki and Hampden. They occur scattered either as isolated or clusters of boulders within a stretch of beach where they have been protected in a scientific reserve. These boulders are grey-coloured septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone and bedrock enclosing them and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion. Especially in recent years, the boulders have been a popular tourist attraction.

 

Nunber 2 : The Twelve Apostles (Victoria) - Nothern Australia

The Twelve Apostles, Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia.

 

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The Twelve Apostles are a collection of limestone stacks off the shore of Port Campbell National Park, by the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. The Twelve Apostles are located on the traditional lands of the Eastern Maar peoples.

 

Their proximity to one another has made the site a popular tourist attraction. Eight of the original nine stacks remain standing at the Twelve Apostles' viewpoint, after one collapsed in July 2005. Though the view from the promontory by the Twelve Apostles never included twelve stacks, additional stacks—not considered part of the Apostles group—are located to the west within the national park.

 

Nunber 1 : Wulingyuan - Hunan Pronvince China

 

the World Heritage Site:Wulingyuan in Zhangjiajie of Hunan, P.R. China

 

Wulingyuan ([ù.lǐŋ.ɥɛ̌n], Chinese: 武陵源) is a scenic and historical site in the Wulingyuan District of South Central China's Hunan Province. It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992. It is noted for more than 3,000 quartzite sandstone pillars and peaks across most of the site, many over 200 metres (660 ft) in height, along with many ravines and gorges with picturesque streams, pools, lakes, rivers, and waterfalls. It features 40 caves, many with large calcite deposits and a natural bridge named Tianqiashengkong (meaning 'bridge across the sky'), which is one of the highest natural bridges in the world. The site also provides habitat for many vulnerable species, including the dhole, Asiatic black bear, and Chinese water deer.

 

The site is situated in Zhangjiajie City and lies about 270 kilometres (170 mi) to the northwest of Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province. The park covers an area of 690 square kilometers (266 square miles). Wulingyuan forms part of the Wuling Mountain Range. The scenic area consists of four national parks, which are the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Suoxi Valley Nature Reserve, Tianzi Mountain Nature Reserve, and the recently added Yangjiajie Scenic Area. Overall there are over 560 attraction sights to view.

 

 

In 1992, Wulingyuan was officially recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. One of the park’s quartz-sandstone pillars, the 3,544-foot (1,080 m) Southern Sky Column, had been officially renamed “Avatar Hallelujah Mountain” in honor of the eponymous film in January 2010.