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Geological Oddities
200-million-year-old ceratosaurus and syntarsus tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo
Near the center of Namibia, in the Kalkveld region, midway between the B1 and the C33 highways is the farm Otjihaenamaparero.
There exposed in the Etjo sandstone are 200-million-year-old... »
Geological Oddities | Edited by kwinb, Dylan and others
Largest Known Meteorite on Earth
As the largest known meteorite known on earth, you would think that this 60 ton iron-nickel meteorite would have left an immense blast crater when it fell to earth nearly 80 million years ago.... »
Geological Oddities | Edited by kwinb and Dylan
A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable to entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists
The Chattooga River is one of the oldest river beds in North America, and is one of the last free-flowing major rivers in the south east United States. This particular feature is the last rapid... »
Watery Wonders, Geological Oddities | Edited by Winoria and Dylan
Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcano's, Azerbaijan features a messy, bubbling, and sometime explosive landscape
In 2001, in Azerbaijan, something unexpected happened. The ground began to move in an unusual way...
"It looked as though an animal was trying to get out of the ground...There was a big... »
Natural Wonders, Fiery Wonders, Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities | Edited by Dylan
Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones
Famed for its thousands of interlocking hexagonal columns that rise vertically like steps, the Giant's Causeway is a geological oddity that looks distinctly man-made.
In fact, the unusual... »
Geological Oddities | Edited by Josh, michelle and 2 others
Baffling rock formations from an earlier era
In the 1930s, workers from the United Fruit Company, clearing land in the Diquis Valley of Costa Rica, began unearthing large numbers of almost perfectly round stone spheres. The largest of these... »
Geological Oddities, Strange Statues | Edited by Josh
World's third largest impact crater, and where the fate of the dinosaurs was sealed
Buried beneath thousands of feet of limestone in the Yucatán Peninsula are the remains of an impact so great that it wiped out over half of the Earth’s species. The Chicxulub Crater, named after... »
Geological Oddities, Disaster Areas | Edited by Trevor
The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit
Using rocks as instruments goes back a very long time. Known as "rock gongs" they were rocks which could be struck and produces a melodious resonant sound, and were used in Africa. In Vietnam they... »
Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities, Musical Wonders | Edited by
Trolltunga is another spectacular example of the geological oddities that dot the Norwegian landscape.
The fittingly named 'Troll's Tongue' sticks out of a vertical mountain side above a 350m... »
Geological Oddities | Edited by stanestane
An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by Native Americans
Enchanted Rock, a pluton, or igneous rock intrusion, is a massive dome comprised of pink granite and rises 425 feet above the ground around it. This ancient monolith has been a part of human... »
Geological Oddities | Edited by Clinton
