They may look like ant hills, but WA's Pinnacles are 100,000 years old, study suggests
Western science has long debated when the towering pillars of the Pinnacles came to be. A new study suggests most of the spires formed when a particularly wet period dissolved the surrounding rock.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-10-03/western-australia-pinnacles-formed-100-000-years-geology/104417536
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