Demoiselles Coiffées de Pontis
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| Location | Pontis, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France |
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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]
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View from above.
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
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