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Recent Examples of inselbergSun, wind, and water sculpted the sandstone into a dramatic, desolate, unearthly landscape of gorges and valleys, inselbergs and stacks, towering tassili and natural arches.—Aminatta Forna, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2024 Geologists had suspected that these inselbergs, found in Brazil, Australia, and southern Africa, are old—enduring while erosion stripped away the surrounding landscape.—Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 26 June 2019 Since the 1950s, more than 30 people have died climbing the sandstone inselberg, which juts up 1,142 feet from the surrounding plains.—Deutsche Welle, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2017 This inselberg of nearly vertical Precambrian strata is about 2.5 kilometers long and more than 350 meters high
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The seamount is 250 miles north of Palau — an island country east of the Philippines — and multibeam sonar revealed its peak is hidden about 800 feet below the surface.
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Mark Price,
Sacbee.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Or book a berth aboard the eight-passenger Water and Wind catamaran to sites that include Princess Alice Bank, where huge schools of jack, tuna, and barracuda cloud the seamount.
By the time the group made the turn, Thomas was essentially acting as a one-man volume knob, pleading for the crowd to quiet down with McIlroy or Lowry ready to putt, then pointing to his ear for points delivered by himself or Young.
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Brendan Quinn,
New York Times,
28 Sep. 2025
Clean the base of the toilet that is on the floor and all the knobs, too.
Among the displays are ceramic figures, scale models and paintings that narrate indigenous traditions in the Andes cordillera, from the first settlements dating back 15,000 years to the birth of the Tiwanaku state and the rise of the Incan empire.
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Washington Post,
Washington Post,
20 Sep. 2019
Away to the west, mountains rode the horizons, granite faced, severe, not the Andes yet, but the cordillera of the pre-Andes.
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Stanley Stewart,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Aug. 2019
The Caribbean coast of Colombia witnessed the birth of cumbia in the river system of the Mompos Depression, an immense wetland, and in a small mountain range known as Montes de María.
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Karla Gachet,
NPR,
1 Oct. 2025
The monks were among 13 people traveling on the cable car at the Na Uyana Monastery in central Sri Lanka, which spreads over more than 5,000 acres of forest on a mountain range, Pansiyagama Police said.
Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.
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Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
14 Nov. 2022
Web cams pointed at Yosemite Valley’s famous granite features, including Half Dome and El Capitan, showed the high sierra landscape completely smoked out, with terrible visibility, on Thursday afternoon.
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