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Catharsis is a challenging boulder route located in Shiobara, Colorado. It’s recognized for its technical tuff climbing and was first ascended by Daniel Woods in 2015. The problem has been assessed as potentially grade V14, representing a significant achievement for advanced climbers seeking to test...
El Gigante is the name given to the largest known moai attempted on Rapa Nui, also called Easter Island. It remains unfinished and attached to the bedrock at the Rano Raraku quarry, where most of the island's moai were carved from volcanic tuff. Measuring roughly 21 meters in length, it demonstrates...
Ihlara Valley is a gorge in Aksaray Province within Turkey's Cappadocia region, extending for roughly 14 kilometers through volcanic rock. The Melendiz River runs along its floor, where vegetation contrasts with the surrounding plateau. The valley contains numerous rock-cut dwellings and more than 1...
Paro was a large moai erected at Ahu Te Pito Kura on Rapa Nui, also called Easter Island. Measuring close to 10 meters tall and commonly estimated at roughly 80 tonnes, it is regarded as the tallest moai known to have been successfully transported and raised on an ahu platform. The statue was carved...
Zelve Open Air Museum preserves three adjoining valleys of rock-cut dwellings, religious spaces, tunnels, and communal structures in Cappadocia, Turkey. Communities excavated the soft volcanic tuff and occupied the settlement for centuries before its remaining residents were relocated in the twentie...
South Island is a volcanic island in the southern part of Lake Turkana in Kenya. It is protected within South Island National Park, one of the three areas comprising the Lake Turkana National Parks UNESCO World Heritage property. The island lies in the tectonically active East African Rift and inclu...
Ōtuataua is a volcanic cone within the Auckland volcanic field near Ihumātao in New Zealand. It stands in the Ōtuataua Stonefields Historic Reserve, a landscape preserving archaeological evidence of Māori settlement and cultivation in soils modified with volcanic stone. The cone and surrounding ston...
Soganli Valley is a settlement and valley system in Cappadocia, central Turkey, shaped by erosion of the region's soft volcanic tuff. Its cliffs and conical rock formations contain churches, chapels, dwellings, and monastic spaces carved directly into the stone, with several interiors preserving Byz...
A small tuff cone islet off Jeju Island, South Korea, included within the Jeju UNESCO Global Geopark and notable for its basalt column formations.
Battleship Rock is a prominent volcanic landform in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico, near the confluence of the East Fork and San Antonio Creek. Despite sometimes being described as basalt, it consists primarily of densely welded volcanic tuff associated with eruptions of the Jemez volcan...
A phreatomagmatic tuff cone in the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand, containing a small crater lake and situated near the suburb of Onehunga.
A tuff cone in Papatoetoe, Auckland, New Zealand, partially quarried for construction aggregate and now protected as part of the Auckland Volcanic Field.
A tuff cone in the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand, largely destroyed by 20th-century quarrying and now partly preserved within a local reserve.
One of the oldest and lowest tuff cones in the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand, heavily quarried through the 20th century and partially preserved near Māngere.
A small tuff cone near Ōtāhuhu in the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand, largely removed by quarrying operations during the 20th century.
