Sentences with phrase «limestone rock stacks»
The Twelve Apostles are a collection of limestone rock stacks popping out of the water in Port Campbell National Park, between Princetown and Peterborough on the Great Ocean Road.
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The pancake rocks and blowholes are the main attraction in Punakaiki where limestones rocks are stacked on top of each other and ocean swells are forced through gaps in the rock creating a whale's blowhole effect.
Most of the rock upon which the Great Ocean Road winds is limestone, and after its fierce weathering from the belligerent waves and winds, the cliffs have been carved into impressive shapes and structures, including blowholes, arches, gorges and rock stacks.
Wild, southern ocean weather has carved these huge rock sculptures from the soft, sheer limestone cliffs leaving a series of stacks some 45 metres high.
The apostles were formed by erosion, gradually eroded by the weather conditions the soft limestone formed caves in the cliffs, that then became arches, which collapsed, leaving rock stacks up to 45 meters high.
Up the road is the leading local attraction — the Punakaiki Pancake Rocks, sculpted limestone sea stacks and towering cliffs.
The rock stacks were created when waves and winds sculpted the limestone over eons of time.