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EARTH PILLAR

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 817 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DRO-ECG
EARTH PILLAR , a pillar of soft
rock
 , or earth, capped by some harder material that has protected it from denudation. The " bad lands " of western North America furnish numerous examples. Here " the formations are often beds of
sandstone
  or shale alternating with unindurated beds of clay. A semi-arid climate where the precipitation is much concentrated seems to be most favourable to the development of this type of formation." The country round the Dead Sea, where loose friable sandy clay is capped by harder
rock
 , produces " bad-
land
  "
topography
 . The cap of hard rock gives way at the joints, and the water making its way downwards washes away the softer material directly under the cracks, which become wider, leaving isolated columns of clay capped with hard
sandstone
  or
limestone
 . These become smaller and fewer as denudation proceeds, the pillars
standing
  a
great
  height at times, until finally they all disappear.


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