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Rocks in the Atacama Desert Suffer from “Earthquake Abrasion”
October 12, 2011 | MSNBC

A geologists has a rare opportunity to be a first-hand witness to how some rocks in Chile’s Atacama Desert are sculpted into unusual shapes by brief periods of “earthquake abrasion”.

This story is almost as unusual as the Sliding Rocks of Racetrack Playa.


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