Slide 1

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 2

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 3

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 4

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 5

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 6

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 7

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 8

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 9

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 10

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 11

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 12

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 13

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 14

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 15

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 16

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 17

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 18

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 19

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 20

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 21

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 22

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 23

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 24

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 25

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 26

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 27

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 28

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 29

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 30

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 31

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 32

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 33

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 34

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END


Slide 35

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

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Slide 36

ROCKS

SEDIMENTARY-Sandstone: Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated rock
formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia. Known as the
"Stone Tree," it is shaped like a stunted tree, and is formed into a thin rock because of
strong winds.

Árbol de Piedra - Bolivia

SEDIMENTARY: The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some
100,000 acres in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone
and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular
structures and isolated hills, called seamounts.

Bárdenas Reales - Navarra - Spain

SEDIMENTARY. Balanced Rock, a Fountain formation, is a combination of coarse
sand, gravel, silica and hematite. It is hematite that gives the large balancing rock rock
its red hue.

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders
lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand.
The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides,
frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored
septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them
and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.

Boulders - South Island - New Zealand

SEDIMENTARY: Brimham Rocks are balancing rock formations on
Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire, England. The rocks stand at a height
of nearly 30 metres in an area owned by the National Trust. There are
many variations of rock formations, caused by Millstone Grit being
eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved
amazing shapes.
Brimham Rock - England, UK

Sedimentary: Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed
by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[5] The original
sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
Delicate Arch - Utah, USA

SEDIMENTARY: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from
seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime
rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.

Pinnacles desert - Nambung National Park - Western Australia

IGNEOUS-Columnar Basalt: Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion in the Black Hills of
northeastern Wyoming. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding
terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower - Wyoming, USA

Igneous: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub
steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats. Fly Geyser is not an entirely
natural phenomenon; it was accidentally created by well drilling[3] in 1964 exploring for
sources of geothermal energy
Geiser Black Rock Desert - Nevada, USA

IGNEOUS-Volcanic: Göreme [ˈɟøɾeme] is located among the "fairy chimney" rock
formations in a historical region of Turkey.

Goreme Valley Fairy Chimneys - Turkey

SEDIMENTARY. Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the
diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres
(26 ft) at the top.

James Bond Island - Thailand

IGNEOUS. The Devils Marbles are large granitic boulders that form the exposed top
layer of an extensive and mostly underground granite formation. The natural processes
of weathering and erosion have created the various shapes of the boulders.

Karlu Karlu or Devil's Marbles - Northern Territory - Australia

Igneous. Krishna’s Butterball is enormous; a granite, glacial erratic.

Krishna's Butterball - India

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society
(NABS) considers the Landscape Arch to be the longest natural arch in
the world,

Landscape Arch - Utah, USA

Igneous-Volcanic? Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven
Canary Islands

Los Roques - Tenerife

Sedimentary-Sandstone. The
Cederberg mountains are noted for
dramatic rock formations and San rock
art.

Maltese Cross Rock - South Africa

Sedimentary. Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain located near the city
of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The mountain is composed of strikingly
pink conglomerate.

Montserrat - Catalonia

Sedimentary. Mushroom Rock State Park,
located in the Smoky Hills region of north-central
Kansas, is noted for its mushroom rock formations.
They are hoodoos formed through a process of
nonuniform erosion and weathering in which a hard
mass of Dakota Sandstone capstone resisted
erosion while the underlying softer stone weathered
away, forming a "mushroom" shape.
Mushroom Rock - Kansas, USA

Sedimentary. Nanya Rockwas formed through the weathering of the sandstone that
lines the shore. The oxidation of iron ore within the striations of the stone has given it a
beautiful striped pattern. (Cross-Bedded Sandstone)
Nanya Rock - Taiwan, China

Sedimentary. Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment
located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas, As the second
largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly 60 mi long and has an average width
of 6 mi, reaches a width of 20 mi at places. Its depth is around 820 ft , but in some
locations it can increase up to 997 ft.
Palo Duro Canyon - Texas, USA

Sedimentary Rock. Percé Rock is part of the range of cliffs, bays and hills on the SW
side of Mal Bay, which are formed of reddish-gold limestone and shale.

Perce Rock - Canada

Igneous-Granite. Piedra Movediza (shifting stone) was a stone located in Tandil,
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons. It fell and broke on
29 February 1912. The rock actually slowly tettered.
Piedra movediza del Tandil - Argentina

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national
park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array
of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes

Port Campbell - Australia

Igneous-Granite. Preikestolen or Prekestolen, also known
by the English translations of Preacher's Pulpit or Pulpit
Rock, is a steep and massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet)
above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand,
Ryfylke, Norway. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25
metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist
attraction in Norway. The rock and deep fjord were molded by
glaciers.

Prekestolen - Norway

Igneous. The Cheesewring is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite
slabs formed by weathering.

The Cheesewring - UK

Sedimentary-Sandstone. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the
Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. It is located in northeastern
Arizona.

Spider Rock, Chelly Canyon - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the
early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of
Northern Europe at the time. About 70 million years ago, these originally horizontal layers were folded to an
almost vertical position; this was followed by various forms of weathering.

The Externsteine - Germany

Igneous. The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt
columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland, UK

Sedimentary. “The Wave” consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo
Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet (19 m) wide by
118 feet (36 m) long and 7 feet (2 m) wide by 52 feet (16 m) long.

The Wave - Arizona, USA

Sedimentary-Limestone. The Jurassic age limestone is about 150
million years old and was laid down in a marine corridor between the
present Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The area is karst terrain,
including caves, and, many joints and faults.

Torcal de Antequera - Andalusia

Sedimentary. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs,
waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. The sandstone formation stands 348 m
(1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying
underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Uluru, Ayers Rock - Australia

Both Igneous and Sedimentary.

Wadi Rum (The Valley of the Moon) is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock
in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.
Wadi Rum - Jordania

Igneous. Hyden Rock, of which Wave Rock is part, consists of
2.63 billion year-old biotite feldspar granite. Hyden Rock is a
granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Wave Rock - Western Australia

THE END