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Arizona Rock Formation
Photo: Rock formation overlooking the Grand Canyon
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Winds sweeping through the Grand Canyon have eroded this sandstone outcrop into an anvil shape. Wind shapes these fantastical forms by eroding less dense rock, like sandstone, faster than surrounding rock.
Photograph by Melissa Farlow

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