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EARTH PILLAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 817 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PILLAR (0. Fr. piler, Mod. pilier, Late Lat. pilare, from pila, column)
PILLAR , a pillar of soft See also:

rock, or earth, capped by some harder material that has protected it from denudation. The " See also:

BAD, BCD

bad lands " of western See also:

North See also:

AMERICA

America furnish numerous examples. Here " the formations are often beds of See also:

SANDSTONE

sandstone or shale alternating with unindurated beds of See also:

clay. A semi-arid See also:

CLIMATE

climate where the precipitation is much concentrated seems to be most favourable to the development of this type of formation." The See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the Dead See also:

Sea, where loose friable sandy clay is capped by harder rock, produces " bad-See also:

LAND

land " See also:

topography. The cap of hard rock gives way at the See also:

JOINTS

joints, and the See also:

WATER

water making its way downwards washes away the softer material directly under the cracks, which become wider, leaving isolated columns of clay capped with hard sandstone or See also:

LIMESTONE

limestone. These become smaller and fewer as denudation proceeds, the pillars See also:

STANDING

standing a See also:

GREAT

great height at times, until finally they all disappear.

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