El Capitan rock formation in Yosemite National Park — without a rope.
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"My sister believed Mount Rushmore was a naturally occurring rock formation."
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I don't quite believe it until I see this rock formation.
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In Arkansas, a stunning rock formation provides the perfect photo opportunity.
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Uluru is an enormous, red rock formation in Australia's Northern Territory.
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El Capitan rock formation in Yosemite National Park without a rope.
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A nunatak is a rock formation completely surrounded by glacial ice.
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Vanessa Hudgens faces legal action in Arizona for defacing a rock formation.
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In celebration, the battalion named a nearby rock formation the Three Brothers.
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Then the liquid is injected into a basalt rock formation deep underground.
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The monument was affixed to a rock formation to mark the Dixie Highway.
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The group flee to a rock formation in the middle of the frozen lake.
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Rock formation acts as a way to track the changes in the magnetic field.
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The police are seeking pictures of the rock formation where the explosives were left.
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And so Tecovas, named after a rock formation in the Texas Panhandle, was born.
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Elliot and Sasha don't ask that question, but they do meet at the rock formation.
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Stars illuminate the sky above a rock formation in the Teide National Park in 2014.
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Per the Associated Press, the Trollpikken rock formation showed signs of vandalism, including drilling holes.
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Amangiri is located in the Utah desert, surrounding a 164 million-year-old rock formation.
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Fracking -- shooting a high-pressure mixture of mostly water and sand against a rock formation until it fractures and sand fills the factures, forcing crude oil out of the rock formation -- is the main reason, Oklahoma is now in such a high-risk category.
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Back in the 1960s, NASA's Mariner spacecraft discovered an extremely large and unusually soft rock formation.
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This Spiclypeus individual was dubbed "Judith" because the fossils came from the Judith River rock formation.
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Australia's famed Uluru rock formation closed in October after years of protests from the Aboriginal community.
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The man can be seen deliberately kicking the rock formation until it breaks, then walking away.
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The Pinnacles is a rock formation made of limestone in the Nambung National Park in Australia.
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Known as Hawksbill Crag or Whitaker Point, this Arkansas rock formation is a popular photograph spot.
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The Duckbill rock formation at Cape Kiwanda in Oregon once balanced precariously on a sandstone pedestal.
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Park webcams showed other landmarks, such the El Capitan rock formation, concealed by thick plumes of smoke.
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The castle sits atop a natural rock formation said to be three times taller than the Wall.
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While most of the Siq is a natural rock formation, some parts were sculptured by the Nabataeans.
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Tourists. Like the idiots who deliberately toppled a beloved 7-foot-tall rock formation on the Oregon coast.
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The name means "mortar stone," and the beach was originally named after a rock formation on the tide.
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AND FINALLY ... NBD Daredevil Ryan Paul wanted to check out a 105-foot-tall rock formation in Tasmania.
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Some theorize that the rock formation was built by Native Americans in the region or by colonial settlers.
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This time, we're hiking The Storr, which features an interesting vertical rock formation called The Old Man of Storr.
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MYSTERIOUS MARS ROCK FORMATION EXPLAINED - AND IT DOESN&aposT INVOLVE UFOS "I love cloud formations!" one Facebook user wrote.
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Uluru, the giant red rock formation located in Australia's Northern Territory, is one of Australia's most famous tourist attractions.
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He'd long delighted in a particular rock formation, where a few stones were piled just so, creating a peephole.
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A significant tourist attraction, the coastal Punta Ventana rock formation and arch, collapsed in Monday's shaking, the mayor said.
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A special rock formation in Oman could be the key to fixing climate change, The New York Times reports.
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Sometimes when I destroy a big rock formation, a school of bright white jellyfish will burst out and attack me.
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The rock formation and the red buoy that mark it appear by that name on Google Maps and nautical charts.
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During the third day, we visited Laguna Colorada, a famous shallow lake, and Árbol de piedra, an isolated rock formation.
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The county of Cornwall hopes that tapping an underground rock formation will bring electricity, economic stimulus and year-round swimming.
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On Monday, a 5.8-magnitude quake and aftershocks terrified residents, leveled homes and destroyed a well-known natural rock formation.
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The Mormon Church keeps roughly 35 billion images of genealogical information inside a vault located within a Utah rock formation.
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"Wood and Rock" is an ink-on-paper scroll depicting withered tree branches alongside a warped and winding rock formation.
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For comparison, the contemporaneous titanosaur Rukwatitan, discovered back in 2014 in the same rock formation, weighed about eight to 10 tons.
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This equally weird and picturesque rock formation is the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, and it's the stuff of actual legend.
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The spiral symbol spotted in the season 8 premiere can be seen from above in rock formation at the Grand Weirwood.
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Judging by the scale of his orchid book, he would have thrilled at the supersize version of his modest rock formation.
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Experts have been warning for years that the rock formation was in danger and was gradually being damaged by rough seas.
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The Western Australia rock formation where the fossils were found could also provide a guide for looking for life on Mars.
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Uluru — also known as Ayers Rock — is a stunning rock formation located in a particularly remote region of the Australian Outback.
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Vati's voice proceeded upon the air, wanting to convey an idea of the exact conical rock formation that had been attempted.
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As Rachael explained, each well also connected to a specific part of the rock formation five thousand or more feet below.
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Jordan's Wadi Rum is a desert rock formation home to caverns, arches, and animals including falcons, Arabian oryx and Nubian ibex.
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In the video West is seen resting in a rock formation with his wife, Kim Kardashian West and their four children.
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These Canadian Rocks May Contain the Oldest Known Traces of LifeResearchers working at a sedimentary rock formation in northern Labrador, Canada, say they've…Read more ReadEarlier this year, Papineau, along with his colleague Matthew Dodd, published evidence of fossils found in a sedimentary rock formation in northern Labrador, Canada that are at least 3.77 billion years old.
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But it is also the country's landmark tourist attraction and, until recently, visitors could regularly be seen climbing the sacred rock formation.
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Boy Scout leaders in Utah cheered as they pushed over a 2,000-year-old rock formation because they thought it was dangerous.
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All the paintings are dominated by a rock formation in the center of the composition, which pushes everything else to the margins.
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The Apex Chert, a rock formation in Western Australia that is among the oldest and best-preserved rock deposits in the world.
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When rangers searched the area, they discovered a British couple had been at the base of the rock formation at the time.
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A towering rock formation called Little El Capitan (and later, "Little El Kaplan," after its new owner), flanked the ranch's northern boundary.
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Uluru, the name of an immense rock formation in central Australia, is trademarked in the United States by a California carpet company.
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Popular among scrollers was an ampersand-only rendering of the Old Man of the Mountain, the distinctive rock formation in northern New Hampshire.
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The combination of full moon, muted light, celadon palette, spiny, sentinel-like pines, and solitary rock formation evokes an otherworldly hush and reverence.
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El Capitan rock formation in Yosemite National Park without a rope was highlighted in documentary Free Solo — is a film star, once again.
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MOST people get sweaty palms just staring up at the sheer granite bulk of El Capitan, a spectacular rock formation in California's Yosemite Valley.
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On Saturday, June 24th, joggers discovered the rock formation, called "Trollpikken"—which loosely translates to "troll dick"—had been drilled into and hacked off.
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It was never meant to be climbed — that only began happening in the early 20th century when visitors started flocking to the rock formation.
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As an experienced mountaineer, the 42-year-old had scaled the massive El Capitan rock formation at Yosemite National Park at least 100 times.
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Named after pioneer woman Julia Pfeiffer Burns, Pfeiffer Beach features an unusual rock formation that looks like a doorway into the setting Pacific sun.
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Close friends Tim Klein, 42, and Jason Wells, 46, were climbing the Freeblast route on El Capitan (a large rock formation) around 8 a.m.
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As elite climbers, the men would often climb the 3,000-foot rock formation on weekends, a friend of the pair, Wayne Willoughby, told Climbing.com.
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For the second day in a row, rockfalls have occurred on El Capitan, a popular rock formation located in Yosemite National Park in California.
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The Roc Egg, a massive rock formation on the peak of Mantou Mountain, had laid dormant for as long as the birds can remember.
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The Wave, a sandstone rock formation in Arizona, was catapulted to bucket-list-item fame when Microsoft included it as Windows 7 desktop wallpaper.
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On Friday, Burnett's sister Nichole Burnett shared a touching photo of her sister enjoying the view from a rock formation, according to the Post.
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"They get that amount of rain once every 20 years," he said, adding that waterfalls were rolling off Uluru, the massive sandstone rock formation.
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One casualty: a coastal rock formation known as Punta Ventana, shaped like a round stone window with a stunning view of the ocean. 2772.
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A mile below us was a rock formation known as the Eau Claire Shale, and below that a formation known as the Mt. Simon Sandstone.
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"That's the Standing Bear," Anthony says, pointing to a red-orange rock formation that looks like a bear sticking its nose up at the sky.
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The bridge was a rock formation, about 20 miles wide, that ran from Dover to Calais and protruded several hundred miles into France and Britain.
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Outside, a piece of stone they found on-site has been made into a sink and rigged to the other side of the rock formation.
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The shake collapsed a coastal rock formation that had formed a sort of rounded window, Punta Ventana, that was a popular tourist draw in Guayanilla.
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Outside, a piece of stone they found on-site has been made into a sink and rigged to the other side of the rock formation.
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So the couple, along with photographer Priscila Valentina, recently flew to Norway to hike Trolltunga, a famous rock formation that has become a major tourist attraction.
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A team of researchers analyzed pyrite, aka fool's gold, found in a South African rock formation thought to be the remains of an ancient tide pool.
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She was re-positioning herself on a rock formation at Whitaker Point in the Ozark National Forest, northwest of Little Rock, when she fell, officials said.
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At the base of Uluru, previously known as Ayers Rock, placards share the history of the Anangu people and request that people not climb the rock formation.
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Unless a rock formation has been turned upside down by movement of Earth's crust, young layers will be at the top and old ones at the bottom.
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Illustration: Chung-Tat CheungIts fossilized impressions—including traces of feathers and soft-tissue—were pulled from a 163-million-year-old rock formation in China's Liaoning province.
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Last spring, Curiosity discovered a unique rock formation in an area known as "Garden City" which suggests the existence of two distinctive wet periods in Mars' history.
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Dr. Eaton said the fracking process could be likened to small underground explosions, shocks that travel into the rock formation and rapidly change the stress patterns within.
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Jutting 2,300 feet above the north side of Ringedalsvatnet lake, the natural rock formation resulted from receding glaciers that broke off large, angular blocks from area mountains.
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A heart carved into an ancient red rock formation is drawing the attention of authorities in Arizona, who are investigating to see if Vanessa Hudgens is the culprit.
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Eventually, after a few minutes of flying close to the surface of the unending ocean, I find a tiny rock formation with just enough space for my ship.
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The dense rock has been successfully tapped over the past decade in the United States, including the lucrative Eagle Rock formation in Texas just across Mexico's northern border.
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Robert said they were making their way back to their camper when Barbara walked ahead of him when he stopped to take a photo of a rock formation.
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Uluru, a massive rock formation in Australia's Northern Territory, is considered to be a sacred site by the Anangu people who have lived there for over 30,000 years.
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The cliff where the rock formation stood in Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area had been fenced off due to numerous deaths and injuries in the area's unstable sandstone.
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Ubirr, a rock formation that juts out over the Nadab floodplain, is home to a collection of stunning Aboriginal rock paintings, many of them thousands of years old.
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That quake also destroyed the Window of the Caribbean, a rock formation on a beach that had been a tourist attraction, but there were no reports of injuries.
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Boy Scout leaders in Utah's Goblin Valley came under fire in 2013 for deliberately pushing over and toppling a 200-million-year-old rock formation known as a hoodoo.
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SYDNEY – Climbing the dramatic rock formation Uluru will be banned in two years after declining as visitors to the Australian scenic landmark increasingly recognize its sacredness to indigenous people.
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In the third scene, a cluster of helicopters drops the Washington Monument onto Montezuma's Temple, a rock formation in Colorado Springs said to resemble an Aztec ruin in Mexico.
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During the first week of September, the group arrived in Norway and woke up at the crack of dawn to make it to the base of the rock formation.
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The vandals have yet to be identified but a pair of Boy Scout leaders faced charges for criminal mischief after toppling over a rock formation in Utah in 2014.
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A geological site would see radioactive waste buried at least 200 meters underground in a rock formation that protects it and acts as a barrier against the radioactivity escaping.
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They drill horizontally into shale and then inject water, minerals and chemicals at high pressure to fracture the rock formation, allowing oil and gas to flow to the wellhead.
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Within an hour, I was up at a spectacular rock formation called the Arch with a cadre of sweaty fitness fans, watching the sun turn the mountains blood red.
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During the park's peak season as many as 80 people may be on the rock formation on any given day, said Ken Yager, president of the Yosemite Climbing Association.
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But a small group of tourists gathered by the side of a road took selfies at La Coca Falls, where the waters tumble 85 feet onto a rock formation.
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Some gas has bubbled up through the fracking liquids in its well, demonstrating that the rock formation Cuadrilla was exploring, known as the Bowland Shale, indeed contains some fuel.
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"As we were scraping, we found a big rock formation, a concretion that was very irregular," mine manager Michael Shideler told Global News, describing the rock that contained the fossils.
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A pair of experienced rock climbers fell to their deaths Saturday morning while scaling a massive rock formation at Yosemite National Park in northern California, the National Park Service announced.
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Uluru, a massive rock formation in Australia's Northern Territory, is finally being shut down to tourists after decades of protest from aboriginal groups who consider the site to be sacred.
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His death followed that of another well-known base jumper, Dean Potter, who crashed into a granite rock formation after leaping off a cliff in Yosemite National Park in 2015.
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After driving four-and-a-half hours to the location, he quickly snapped a shot of a rock formation, which he said changed color as a result of golden hour.
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Connor Golden, who was visiting New York City from Virginia, was climbing down from a rock formation with two friends when a bag he stepped on exploded around 11 a.m.
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During the summer mountaineering season this year, some climbers said the Hillary Step - a near vertical rock formation below the summit - had collapsed, though the Nepal government has rebutted those claims.
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Kendjam sat alongside a glass-clear river, the Irirí, with a dozen traditional houses next to a grass airstrip and a red rock formation jutting several hundred feet above the treetops.
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According to a statement released by the National Park Service (NPS), the body was found below Angels Landing — a 1,488-foot tall rock formation known previously as the Temple of Aeolus.
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Amateur paleontologist Leigh Love found the fossil specimens in a rock formation on the side of the Waipara River on New Zealand's South Island in 2018, according to the press release.
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Frances Pauley is a dreamy 11-year-old who spends hours in her "rock room," the rock formation behind her house, where she watches crows, tracks bugs and does her homework.
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Most of the magma that reaches these reservoirs cools and crystallizes into a rock formation known as a pluton, like the Half Dome rock structure in Yosemite (but below ground), Singer said.
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Gas companies are using a technique known as hydraulic fracturing or "fracking", which involves pumping fluid into wells at high pressure in order to fracture the rock formation and release the gas.
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In the performance, the artist swam out to a large rock formation off the coast of Santo Domingo in the early morning and built a structure that completely consumed him over hours.
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After his first match at this year's tournament, Federer gave an on-court interview that centered on his appreciation for the region and a photo shoot at a scenic rock formation nearby.
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Freeclimbing legend Alex Honnold -- the star of "Free Solo" -- is being hailed as a real-life hero after rescuing a fellow climber Sunday who fell off a famous rock formation in Yosemite.
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Next you see a deep purple tile that matches the tiny purple flowers blossoming around it, then a sandy pink one mimicking a few layers of the rock formation ahead of you.
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It was made by scribing the rock formation, not by computer or laser but rather by hand, with an old-fashioned scribing compass, over the course of nine trips to the park.
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For every take, von Wong would weigh down Bourke (with oxygen mask and scuba tank) amid a pretty rock formation, in all her white-dressed glory, and wait for sharks to swim by.
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Here's a weird thing: After a beloved penis-shaped rock formation in Norway was left damaged by vandals this weekend, Norwegians donated their hard-earned cash in hopes of getting it back up.
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We're told the Red Rock Ranger District of the Coconino National Forest has its sights set on a rock formation which Vanessa and Austin Butler used to carve their names and a heart.
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The island's spectacular three rock formation, formed over 17.23 million years ago, is symbolic of the timeless heritage and strong foundation that is at the core of each of the three founder-led brands.
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This area is home to a rock formation known as the Iberian Pyrite Belt, a site that's popular among scientists due to its similarities to Mars, in particular its concentration of iron and sulphur.
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That changed this week after Google, working closely with the site's traditional owners, released interactive imagery of the stunning rock formation and audio of its ancient stories to the world for the first time.
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It might take weeks of planning to set a rover on a certain course to investigate a rock formation just a few feet away, whereas a person could simply walk over to an outcropping.
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The Briar Cliff University student was re-positioning herself for a photo on a rock formation at Whitaker Point, located in the Ozark National Forest, northwest of Little Rock, when she fell, Wheeler said.
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His disinterest in traditional forms of political accountability lures the system into virtually ignoring his behavior, as if he is a rock formation blocking a roadway, a natural obstacle that must be planned around.
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A Pennsylvania community is mourning a 15-year-old boy who died on Monday after falling at least 50 feet from a tall rock formation during a YMCA camping trip in Somerset County, reports say.
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Stops to view etchings at Twyfelfontein, Namibia's first Unesco World Heritage site, and the aptly named Organ Pipes rock formation meant we ended up driving the final 213 miles of the day in the dark.
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But for bucket-listers, or anyone looking to cram their itinerary with every last volcanic crater, rock formation, and old-growth forest, those fees can add up quickly, hence the beauty of an annual pass.
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It turns out over a billion years ago, these two disparate locations were part of the same rock formation in the long-lost supercontinent of Rodinia, according to a study published this month in Geology.
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On Pui O beach on Lantau Island, large stinking clumps of congealed palm oil dotted the shoreline, and a rock formation at one end that children love to climb was coated in the slippery substance.
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Next we went to the cave, which was in the middle of a desert like you'd see in a movie with a rock formation, which was the cave, about half a mile in the background.
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Guayanilla also lost a tourist attraction called the Window of the Caribbean, a rock formation jutting into the sea that formerly featured a doughnut-like hole that provided a frame for the seascape behind it.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two climbers fell to their deaths on Saturday from the face of the towering El Capitan granite rock formation at Yosemite National Park in northern California, the U.S. National Park Service said.
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It's scientific name is Spiclypeus shipporum (spi-CLIP-ee-us ship-OR-um) but it's been nicknamed "Judith," after the Judith River rock formation where it was found in 2005 by retired nuclear physicist Bill Shipp.
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The Journal Star reported that a couple is accused of drawing a heart with "B+K" in the middle on a rock formation known as the Council Overhang in Starved Rock State Park in Oglesby, Illinois.
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It turns out there is a geographical feature on Mars that looks a lot like a face, but the photographs and data, of course, demonstrate that it is just a rock formation on the planet's surface.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Tourists visiting a world heritage site in mountains west of Sydney were forced to take photos of a billboard showing "The Three Sisters" rock formation on Friday as smoke from bushfires blanketed the attraction.
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That elsewhere turned out to be an enormous outcropping of schist that sits on Manhattan's west side in Central Park, roughly at 70th Street; the artist, Kurt Steger, traced the rock formation to make the piece.
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The name alludes to Stonehenge, the 5,000-year-old rock formation in England that aligns with the rising sun during the summer solstice -- an event that heralds the beginning of the summer season for the Northern Hemisphere.
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The collapse of a famous rock formation on the Oregon coast known as Duckbill Rock, or Thor's Fist, has turned into a criminal investigation after a video emerged of a group allegedly destroying the landmark on purpose.
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The institute also found that because the dam is to be built on a porous rock formation, most of the 10 billion gallons of water proponents claim it will store will be lost, absorbed by the earth.
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In paleontology, sometimes a very thin layer in a rock formation can signal a profound break in time, like the K-T boundary that marks the extinction of the dinosaurs and divides the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras.
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Prior to this discovery, some of the oldest evidence of life was detected in rocks from Greenland, including 3.7 billion-year-old rocks from the Isua belt and 3.8 billion-year-old rocks from the Akilia rock formation.
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Now, he's posted a rare view of Australia's spectacular natural red rock formation, Uluru (also previously known as Ayers Rock), which sits in the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in the country's Northern Territory.
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In Bali, one of Asia's most popular holiday destinations, Trump Hotels will operate a six-star hotel built atop a cliff overlooking the Indian Ocean and Tanah Lot, a popular sea temple located on a small rock formation.
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After they were engaged in December 2014, they almost immediately agreed to fold their marriage neatly into the middle of a physical challenge, like making the daunting hike up the Half Dome rock formation, 5,000 feet above Yosemite Valley.
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Nutman said he's "mystified" that Allwood and her colleagues focused on the far end of the site A outcrop, which his team avoided because of the severe tectonic deformations and chemical weathering observed in this particular part of the rock formation.
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Now his death-defying ascent in 2017 of the towering El Capitan granite rock formation in California's Yosemite National Park is taking him to the Oscars, where a film about his feat will compete for the movie world's highest honor.
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Visitors to Utah's Arches National Park have taken tagging to new heights (and lows), deeply carving their names — sometimes as big as six feet across and three feet high — into the sandstone walls of the iconic Frame Arch rock formation.
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At the same time, fracking has led to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in the US. Fracking involves pumping high pressure water, sand, and other chemicals into a rock formation to create fractures that can release trapped oil and gas.
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Sonam Dargyal, who grew up in Lancang before becoming a physician in Yushu county, south of Madoi, has spent years collecting Tibetan folk tales, from stories of why a rock formation resembles a Buddha's head to flying lamas with magical powers.
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Follow this proudly impious, native Brit through "My Red-State Odyssey" across the South as he describes the scene at a Nascar race and visits a rock formation in southern Virginia that the locals treat as a sign of God's wondrous creation.
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The cause of a mysterious rock formation on Mars that NASA deemed "an enigmatic pile of eroding sediments" and UFO hunters strongly believe is an extraterrestrial spacecraft was likely caused by volcanic activity on the planet billions of years ago, researchers say.
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The computer simulations are gone, and I have a pedestrian's view of cars and trucks passing by the MoCA building, all mirrored in the brilliantly glossy casing — an angular rock formation made sleek, modernist haven consisting of mirror-finish, black stainless steel.
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Przybycien tied the rope into a noose and recorded Brown for more than 10 minutes, according to court documents, as she stood on a rock formation with it around her neck, inhaled compressed gas and finally slipped off the rock to her death.
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A hike not for the faint of heart The famous landmark in Yosemite is a 14 to 16 mile round trip hike that ends with a 400 foot cable climb up to the top of the rock formation, according to the park's website.
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Happily reclined, as though he had made himself at home in a craggy, natural rock formation that was never meant for human comfort, Wendell Castle often had the look of a friendly genius who didn't quite know what all the fuss was about.
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Quick lights As I mentioned, I really love Milky Way photography, but sometimes it's useful to add a bit of light to your foreground (a cool rock formation, a tree, etc.) so that some of its details stand out with the galaxy in the background.
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Before the ceremony, the Olympic torch will travel to some of the most well-known landmarks of the "marvelous city" - from the Christ the Redeemer statue atop the lush green mountains to the striking Pao de Acucar or Sugar Loaf rock formation on Guanabara Bay.
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Activists have pushed the candidates to address fracking — which involves pumping high pressure water, sand, and other chemicals into a rock formation to create fractures that can release trapped oil and gas — because it has radically reshaped the US economic, energy, political, and environmental landscape.
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"You know when you build something up in your head and as a result, there's probably no way it could be better than that," Patrick, 37, wrote in the caption of a picture of her and Rodgers smiling with a beautiful rock formation in the background.
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National Geographic's "Free Solo" this week won an Academy Award for best documentary feature after capturing the journey of 33-year-old Alex Honnold as he achieved the seemingly impossible: Scaling 3,000-feet of Yosemite National Park's El Capitan rock formation without so much as a rope.
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The Journal Star reported that a man and a woman, believed to be in their 20s, are accused of drawing a heart with "B+K" in the middle of a rock formation known as the Council Overhang in Starved Rock State Park in Oglesby, Illinois, on Monday.
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Image: Abigail AllwoodTwo years ago, researchers from the University of Wollongong in Australia shook the science world by claiming to have discovered 3.7 billion-year-old fossils in a rock formation in Greenland, a finding that pushed back the origin of life on Earth by 200 million years.
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But they have nothing to do with us — literally dumb rocks, they were formed by the persistent thoughtless beating of waves, the most absolute rebuke to humanity that nature provides — and for that reason are ultimately less interesting than another rock formation found on Gotland, the stone ships.
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In 1985, the Australian government returned the title deeds of the national park to the Anangu people, though the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park continued to be managed by both the Anangu and Australia's parks authority, which allowed for the continuation of tourism to the important rock formation.
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Professional climbers are so familiar with this arduous rock formation that some climb it without rope or race up as fast as they can; the speed record on a route called the Nose, set in 19673 by Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell, is a little under two hours.
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Based on a discovery of scrape traces in the Dakota Sandstone of Colorado, an approximately 100 million-year-old rock formation, University of Colorado–Denver paleontologist Martin Shockley and his team were able to do something scientists who study dinosaurs rarely get to: hypothesize about behavior—and sexy behavior, at that.
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The seismic events this week that caused one death, power outages all over the island, and destruction of homes, schools, churches, and the sacred indigenous landmark, the rock formation Punta Ventana on the coast of Guayanilla, happened as the island is still recovering from category five Hurricane Maria and its aftermath.
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It was the first sign we were approaching what turned out to be not so much falls but a rock formation in the rapids, very cool for dipping into its pools and, more important, taking photos of ourselves beneath cascading water that we would post when we were back in social media range.
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Stanford made the discovery much like one might find a $20 bill on the street — he was on his way out of NASA's parking lot after dropping off his wife, Sheila, who worked at Goddard, when he spotted what he thought might be a promising rock formation for dinosaur tracks about 90 feet away.
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Honnold made headlines last year as the star of the documentary Free Solo, which chronicled his journey to do a free solo climb — or one where he did not use ropes and other safety gear — of the El Capitan, a granite rock formation in Yosemite Valley which juts some 3,000 feet into the air.
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The first part of the name means "Antarctic king," and the second part pays tribute to Ernest Shackleton, the twentieth-century explorer who named the Fremouw Formation, the rock formation in the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica where the species was excavated by lead author Brandon Peecook in a 2010-2011 Antarctic expedition, during the austral summer.
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