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Rock shelter in the Little Carpathians

A rock shelter is a shallow cave-like opening at the bottom of a cliff. Rock shelters form because a rock stratum that does not erode has formed a cliff. But a weaker stratum, that erodes a lot is under the resistant stratum. As it erodes it creates an opening at the bottom of the cliff.

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  • Indian Cave

    The rock shelter for which Indian Cave State Park is named.

  • Shepherds' rock shelter, Lahaul

    Shepherds' rock shelter in Lahaul, India

  • Excavation at Paleolithic site of Bawa Yawan, Zagros, Iran 2017

    Bawa Yawan rockshelter, sieving of excavated depsits at a Paleolithic site in Iranian Zagros, April 2017

  • Turtleheadcave

    Rock shelter atStrouds Run State Park

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