Demoiselles Coiffées de Pontis
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| Location | Pontis, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France |
The Demoiselles Coiffées de Pontis is a rock formation in Pontis, near Embrun in the French Alps, located on the edge of the Lac de Serre-Ponçon. The formation consists of a number of hoodoos, described as a "set of narrowly-tapered rock columns....topped with a large rock balanced neatly on the tip."[1] In French, such structures are referred to as Demoiselles Coiffées ("ladies with hairdos").
It is one of the best-known[2] and most attractive[3] examples in France of the structure; an earlier commentator referred to them as "some fifty bizarre columns with hairdos."[4]
See also
- Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area
- Đavolja Varoš
- Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness
- Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument
- Bryce Canyon National Park
- List of rock formations
- Hoodoo (geology)
References
- ^ Collins, Russ (2005–2011). "Demoiselles Coiffées". ProvenceBeyond. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
- ^ Haug, Émile (1907). Traité de géologie. Vol. 1. Librairie Armand Colin. p. 386.
- ^ Godefroy, René (1940). La nature alpine: exposé de géographie physique. B. Arthaud. p. 121.
- ^ G., E. (1900–1901). "Chronique des sociétés Alpines". Revue des alpes dauphinoises. 3. Grenoble: Société des alpinists Dauphinois: 19–21.
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