Posts

Showing posts with the label rain

THE EARTH PILLAR, DEMOISELLE, OR HOODOO

                                       A tall column of earth, often 20 to30 feet high, capped by a large boulder. The boulder has originally lain on the soil; when most of the soft surface material surrounding it has been gradually worn away by rain, it has protected the earth beneath it, and has remained perched on a long pillar of this earth. Earth pillars occur frequently in mountain valleys, and probably the best-known examples are those of the Tyrol.