The Wave, ArizonaIt is easy for us to get so caught up in our lives and focused on our immediate surroundings that we forget what an amazing world we inhabit. The complex stuctures formed from a multitude of env...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/07/24/Unusual-Landscapes-Across-the-Globe/(Photo: Associated Press)Yellowstone National Park is in the northwestern corner of Wyoming, along with a little bit spilling over into Idaho and Montana. At 3,468 square miles, it's larger than the states of Delaware an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/07/13/Its-So-Hot-in-Yellowstone-that-a-Road-Literally-Melted/How old is the Grand Canyon? Scientists haves been working on the answer for decades. Some believe the canyon is fairly young, in geologic terms, having been carved out by the Colorado River in the past five millions yea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/27/Unlocking-Secrets-of-the-Grand-Canyons-Age/(Photo: V.L. Sharpton)300,000 years ago, a meteorite hit western Australia, boring a hole 400 feet deep and 2,880 feet across into the surface of the earth. This crater, now known as Wolfe Creek Crater, gradually filled...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/03/Wolfe-Creek-Crater-A-Natural-Garden-inside-a-Meteorite-Crater/(Photo: Sebastian Peleato)(Photo: Andrew Fysh)Near Çıralı, Turkey, on that nation's southwestern coast, you can find fires burning near the shore. They've burned for thousands of years, fueled by underground sou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/26/The-Flaming-Rocks-of-Chimera-Turkey/(Photo: Vallesanchez)El Peñón de Guatapé rises high above Guatapé, Colombia. It's a 200 meter tall slab of granite and quartz. Visitors can climb 649 steps carved into the rock to reach the to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/16/The-Rock-of-Guatap/(Photo: Eric Pheterson)It may look like a painting, but this is a real landform. The Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in southeastern China has beautiful rippled shapes of red sandstone.Link -via TYWKIWDBI...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/15/The-Amazing-Colors-of-the-Danxia-Landform/[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co0Jm6cll14](Video Link)Near the town of Bicheno on the Australian island of Tasmania is a geological oddity that will let you think that you're standing on a whale. The Bicheno blowhole i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/06/28/The-Bicheno-Blowhole/Roger Putnam, a graduate student at the University of North Carolina, spent three days hanging on the sheer cliff of El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, to take rock samples in order to create a highly detailed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/06/13/Rock-Map-of-El-Capitan/Rhiannon's cake is delicious, right down to the core. She made it for her sister, a teacher, who wanted to show her students how the Earth is structured. The baking challenge was to bake a hemisphere within a hemisphere...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/24/Earth-Structural-Layer-Cake/
