Tafoni
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Tafoni are cavities that develop in granular rock. Tafoni are commonly defined as small to large cavity features that develop in either natural or manmade, vertical to steeply sloping, exposures of gr
Tafoni at Salt Point State Park, Sonoma County, California.
Tafoni from Antarctica
Tafoni formation in the mountains near San Francisco.
Tafoni in sandstone, Südpfalz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Panhole
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A panhole or weathering pit is a depression or basin eroded into flat or gently sloping cohesive rock. Similar terms for this feature are gnamma or rock holes, armchair hollows, weathering pans and so
Tafoni
…Honeycomb weathering – Form of cavernous weathering and subcategory of tafoni, a similar weathering landform Weathering pits (or panholes) - rock basins formed on the top surfaces of non-glaciated rock outcrops. Haloclasty…
Panholes on a granite surface near Corscia, Corsica
Weathering pits on the "Cup and Saucer Rock" at Carn Brea.
Panholes in granodiorite at Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California
Rock hole in Hiltaba Nature Reserve, South Australia