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Tempest at Skull Rock

Joshua Tree National Park, California

 

Skull Rock is one of my favorite subjects..

Standing at about 12 meters tall, it is one of the more interesting monzogranite rock formations in the park. The eye sockets that give it an eerie anthropomorphic look were formed by a process called tafuni, where small depressions in the rock hold water that dissolves the rock then subsequent rainwater leads to more erosion over centuries.

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Uploaded on June 18, 2022
Taken on May 25, 2022