Bizarre Landscapes Created by Erosion

 

Delicate Arch in Arches National Park, Utah, USA.

This feature is maily formed by wind erosion.

American deserts in the Great Basin suffer from extremely low temperatures in winter and extremely high temperatures in summer. This causes cracking of the rocks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View into canyons created by uplift and river erosion. Canyonlands National Park, Utah, USA. The area shown is where Green River merges into Colorado River.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Strangely formed mountains created by erosion in Badlands National Park, South Dakota, USA.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Konglomerat sandstone mountains eroded by weathering in the central desert of Australia: the Katatjutas (many heads translated from Aboriginal language into English). This place is also known as Mt. Olga.

 

 

 

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