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Features like this dot the landscape everywhere in the park: bedrock boulders, lying in piles. There's no proper geologic name for them, really, but they are relatives of the inselberg. An inselberg ("island mountain" in German) is a bedrock knob or hill sitting in the middle of a flat erosional landscape. If only these boulder piles, instead of falling apart, had stuck together. We'll see some more pictures that shed light on why they didn't.
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