Fairy chimney
by Antonio Jordán, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain
Fairy chimneys form as a result of splash and runoff erosion. They appear when rock fragments protect like a hat the erodible soil or sediments immediately below.
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- Europe (3716)
- Southern Europe (1620)
- Spain (777)
- Exact location (-6.0534 W, 37.8477 N)
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2496 × 1664 px;
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Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
Taken on 3
November
2014
Submitted on 23 March 2015
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
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Antonio Jordán (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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