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Grand Canyon National Park
national park in Coconino and Mohave counties in Arizona, United States
Arches National Park
national park in Grand County, Utah, United States
Big Hole
open-pit and underground mine in Kimberley, South Africa
Yonaguni Monument
submerged rock formation
blockfield
thumb|Felsenmeer in Lautertal-Reichenbach (Odenwald) thumb|Felsenmeer on the Kalmit in the [[Palatine Forest]] thumb|Boulder stream of the Kaser Steinstube near [[Triftern]] thumb|A photo of a single eastern white pine in the nearly barren Boulder Field, [[Hickory Run State Park, PA.]] thumb|Felsenmeer, painting by Egbert Schaap (1912). [[Rijksmuseum Amsterdam]] A blockfield (also spelt block field), felsenmeer, boulder field or stone field is a surface covered by boulder- or block-sized rocks usually associated with a history of volcanic activity, alpine and subpolar climates and periglaciati
geotope
thumb|Petrified Miocene [[quartz sand in the old Grube Gotthold mine on the Liebenwerda Heath, Lower Lusatia]] A geotope is the geological component of the abiotic matrix present in an ecotope. Example geotopes might be an exposed outcrop of rocks, an erratic boulder, a grotto or ravine, a cave, an old stone wall marking a property boundary, and so forth.
Natural Bridges National Monument
national monument in San Juan County, Utah, United States
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
national monument Coconino County, Arizona, United States
Smoking Hills
hill group in the Northwest Territories, Canada
Weltenburger Enge
Geotop in Landkreis Kelheim in Bavaria, Germany