Babele is the name given to an area of distinctive rock formations on the plateau of the Bucegi Mountains, part of Romania's Southern Carpathians. Wikipedia's own lead for the site is brief; the shapes and composition of the rocks themselves are a gap left for a depth pass. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Protected StatusNational Park or Reserve 1 Protected Status Connections
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1. UNEP-WCMC and IUCN: Protected areas at the coordinates of Babele, World Database on Protected Areas
UNEP-WCMC and IUCNname_eng and desig_eng
"name_eng": "Parcul Natural Bucegi", "desig_eng": "Natural park"
desig_eng, designation 9 of the point search
"name_eng": "Bucegi", "desig_eng": "Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)"
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Babele (meaning The old women) is the name for an area on the Bucegi Mountains plateau in Romania, within the Southern Carpathians.
Caused By: Erosion, Lead section (caused-by Erosion)
The name comes from some mushroom shaped rock formations, the result of erosion and varying hardness of the rock layers.
In Discipline: Geomorphology, Lead paragraph
Babele (meaning The old women) is the name for an area on the Bucegi Mountains plateau in Romania, within the Southern Carpathians.
In Group: Rock Pillars, Towers and Weathered Rock Groups, Lead sentence
The name comes from some mushroom shaped rock formations, the result of erosion and varying hardness of the rock layers.
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