A stack or sea stack is a geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast, formed by wave...

Look up Stack or stack in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stack may refer to: Stack Island, an island game reserve in Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia...

the south of South Stack. The geology of South Stack has been chosen as one of the top 100 geosites in the United Kingdom by Geological Society of London...

Pájaros (from Spanish Farallón de Pájaros, meaning "Birds' Sea Stack", see Stack (geology)), also known as Urracas (from Spanish Urracas, meaning "Magpies")...

in Ethiopia Hoodoo Kigilyakh Pinnacles National Park Pyramidal peak Stack (geology) Totem pole (Monument Valley) Trango Towers Základy geomorfologie: vybrané...

expands on notable sea stacks, including former sea stacks that no longer exist. Denais Stack, King George Island Cutler Stack, Livingston Island Neptune's...

of relating strata to time) and geochronology (a scientific branch of geology that aims to determine the age of rocks). It is used primarily by Earth...

(DD-978), a Spruance-class destroyer A coastal landform which forms when a stack (geology) is eroded Stump v. Sparkman, United States Supreme Court decision on...

Geology (from Ancient Greek γῆ (gê) 'earth' and λoγία (-logía) 'study of, discourse') is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other...

Redonda is an uninhabited Caribbean island which is a dependency of Saint John, Antigua and Barbuda, in the Leeward Islands, West Indies. The island is...

Rocas Alijos, or Escollos Alijos (English: Alijos Rocks) are a series of tiny, steep, uninhabited, and barren volcanic islets or above-water (as well as...

Byzantine, or "Rock of the Greek"), also known as Aphrodite's Rock, is a sea stack in Paphos, Cyprus. It is located off the shore along the main road from...

A rauk is a column-like landform in Sweden, often equivalent to a stack. Rauks often occur in groups called raukfält 'rauk fields'. The limestone rauks...

sea stack on Hoy, part of the Orkney archipelago off the north coast of Scotland. Formed from Old Red Sandstone, it is one of the tallest stacks in the...

El Dedo de Dios (translated: God's finger) is a 30 m (98 ft) high sea stack in the Atlantic Ocean, off the northern part of Gran Canaria, one of the Canary...

Law stating that newer strata stack above older ones Plummer, C.C.; Carlson, D.H.; Hammersley, L. (2015). Physical Geology, 15th ed. New York, USA: McGraw-Hill...

azzurra (Podarcis siculus coeruleus) is endemic to this faraglione. Stack (geology) Coastal and oceanic landforms A faraglione in the Gargano National...

Strombolicchio (Italian pronunciation: [stromboˈlikkjo]) is a sea stack of volcanic origin 2 km (1.2 mi) to the northeast of the island of Stromboli in...

outcrop of this formation at South Stack was chosen as one of the top 100 geosites in the United Kingdom by the Geological Society of London, for its display...

Diamond Rock (French: rocher du Diamant) is a 175-metre-high (574 ft) basalt island located south of "Grande Anse du Diamant" before arriving from the...

causing one half to leap into the sea and become Ko Ta Pu. In contrast, the geological explanation for the formation of Ko Ta Pu suggests that the area was part...

18°59′50″N 112°03′54″W / 18.99722°N 112.06500°W / 18.99722; -112.06500 Roca Partida (English: Split Rock) ranks as the smallest of the four Revillagigedo...

Old Harry Rocks are three chalk formations, including a stack and a stump, located at Handfast Point, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England...

In geology and related fields, a stratum (pl.: strata) is a layer of rock or sediment characterized by certain lithologic properties or attributes that...

Darwin's Arch (Spanish: Arco de Darwin) was a natural rock arch feature to the south-east of Darwin Island in the Galápagos Archipelago in the Pacific...

confronting the shore of the sea, isolated from the mass of basic rock by geological forces. It is more than three-fourths revealed by the tide and lies perpendicular...

Zealandia Bank, also known as Farallon de Torres or Piedras de Torres in Spanish, or Papaungan in Chamorro, consists of two rocky pinnacles about 1.5 kilometers...

several paintings in the area particularly of the natural cliff arches and stacks. Jacques Offenbach had a villa there called “Villa d'Orphée”, named after...

In geology, a sill is a tabular sheet intrusion that has intruded between older layers of sedimentary rock, beds of volcanic lava or tuff, or along the...

in an aggregate area of one-half hectare (1.2 acres). This picturesque stack, or kekur, is considered a symbol of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Local lore...