Chambers Pillar is a sandstone formation about 160 kilometers south of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, rising about 50 meters above the surrounding plain. The pillar is carved from sandstone roughly 350 million years old, left standing in isolation as wind and rain eroded away the softer surrounding rock over a long period. The formation and 340 hectares around it are protected as the Chambers Pillar Historical Reserve, and the pillar is recognized as a site of Aboriginal significance. This entity documents Chambers Pillar specifically as a geological formation, an isolated 350-million-year-old sandstone erosional pillar.
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Protected StatusNational Park or Reserve 1 Connections
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
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1. UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected Areas: WDPA protected areas at the location of Chambers Pillar
UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected AreasWDPA feature: Chamber's PillarQuote, WDPA feature: Chamber's Pillar
"desig_eng": "Historical Reserve"
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Wikidata Q5069658, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Chambers Pillar (Wikipedia)
In Group: Rock Pillars, Towers and Weathered Rock Groups, Lead sentenceQuote, In Group: Rock Pillars, Towers and Weathered Rock Groups, Lead sentence
Chambers Pillar (Aboriginal name Idracowra or Etikaura) is a sandstone formation some 160 km (100 mi) south of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia.
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