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I HAVE taken two photographs of an interesting specimen I obtained from the cliffs here. The stone is composed of very fragile sand-rock containing fragments of flint. A large mass of this became detached from the higher part of the cliff, and some of the pieces chanced to fall on a ledge upon which dry sand was constantly pouring in windy weather. The action of this falling sand wore away all parts of the surface of the stone save those protected by the small embedded fragments of flint, and hence the formation of these miniature pillars.
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CARUS-WILSON, C. Earth Pillars in Miniature. Nature 38, 197 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038197a0
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