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- Tafoni (singular: tafone) are cavities that develop in granular rock. Although various definitions[example needed] can be found[by whom?] in the scientific...
- stonelace, fretting, or miniature tafoni weathering. The size at which honeycombs are differentiated from tafoni varies greatly in the scientific literature...
- and along coasts. Salt weathering is likely important in the formation of tafoni, a class of cavernous rock weathering structures. Living organisms may contribute...
- observed; these include inselbergs, flared slopes, domes, nubbins, tors, tafonis, and gnammas. Most of Sierra de Lihuel Calel is made up ignimbrite, a volcanic...
- A view of the Tafoni Trail in El Corte de Madera Open Space Preserve...
- Due to the large amounts of sandstone, small cave-like features called tafoni can be found along the s**** of Salt Point. This park is named for the formation...
- Alluvial fans compose most of the alluvial sediments. Aeolian systems include tafoni, natural bridges, and sand dunes. Sand dunes include barkhans, climbing...
- and claimed "Hole-in-the-Rock". Hole-in-the-Rock is a series of openings (tafoni) eroded in a small hill composed of bare red arkosic conglomeritic sandstone...
- These landforms are inselbergs, flared slopes, domes, nubbins, tors, tafonis and gnammas. In addition, just like in granite landscapes landforms in...
- New Zealand Hole-in-the-Rock (Papago Park), a geological formation of tafoni in sandstone in Papago Park, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. Hole in the Rock (rock...