hoodoo
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tall, thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of an arid drainage basin or badland
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- geomorphology
- Subclass of
- landform
- Has part
- sand
- Image
- Hoodoo (2263791546).jpg
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Hoodoos
- OpenStreetMap tag
- geological=hoodoo
- has cause
- erosion
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Encyclopedic overview
Hoodoos in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
A hoodoo (also called a tent rock, fairy chimney, or earth pyramid) is a tall, thin spire of rock formed by erosion. Hoodoos typically consist of relatively soft rock topped by harder, less easily eroded stone that protects each column from the elements. They generally form within sedimentary rock and volcanic rock formations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hoodoo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.