Talk:List of rock formations

A lot of the places listed are just to articles about places with no mention of the rock formation. Can we have more detail for each entry to describe why the formation is striking and what it is. 81.133.235.148 21:27, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Article merging/reshufling[edit]

There are three articles that overlap significantly

Rock formation (I renamed it from Rock formations)
Formation of rocks (I renamed it from Rock formation)
Geologic formation, which basically speaks about rock formations.

IMO the third one must be merged into the firat one, unless there are non-rock formations techhically called "formations" as well (I am not a geologist)

Duplication between first and second ones must be minimized and the second one must be referred from the first one instead.

mikka (t) 18:11, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The first (this article) is an informal list of popularily recognized rock appearances oe formations. It is a tourist guide to unusual or perhaps photogenic rock outcroppings. Rather ill-defined list of everyone's favorite scenic rock. Non-scientific.

The second as now defined is an introductory lesson in the three main fields of petrology. Could be expanded as such - it is a science based article.

The third is a more formal discussion of rock Formations as the basis of the science of stratigraphy.

The three as now defined are distintly different articles and should not be merged. More work is needed to better flesh-out the articles and the popular list (this article) needs a better heading perhaps. Vsmith 04:49, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal[edit]

The somewhat poorly named List of famous rocks is a stub list and is quite redundant with the contents of this page. The famous part of that page name is troubling to some editors and a merge of that list here would solve that problem as well as remove a redundant list. Vsmith 01:44, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As one of the editors troubled by "famous", I have to agree with the merger proposal. UnitedStatesian 02:09, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Renaming[edit]

This article should be named List of rock formations, as it is a list, per Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone_lists). Mr. Absurd 17:12, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. --Gibmetal 77 ^talk 17:48, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I too agree. If I hear no objections in the next few days, I'll take care of the move if no one else does. UnitedStatesian 17:50, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The list[edit]

Can we eliminate the forever-growing list of rock formations in each country? There are of course tens of thousands of such features. Could we limit it to those that are notable enough to have their own Wikipedia entry - as is done in many such situations? Cheers Geologyguy (talk) 14:20, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge from List of rock formations in Oceania[edit]

Makes sense, considering the shortness of the "in Oceania" page. Silly to fork it off. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 08:42, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Split List of rock formations in Oceania[edit]

Assuming the "list of rock formations by country" articles are useful (quite a few countries have them), why not split List of rock formations in Oceania into List of rock formations in Australia and List of rock formations in New Zealand (there are only two other entries, which would thus be in the main List of rock formations only). I suppose the Lists for countries may include more descriptive text than the world list, and possibly some extra entries. I think that while the national lists should not list every rock formation, they could include some which are notable but not notable enough to have their own article Hugo999 (talk) 11:44, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Poor impression[edit]

Apparently Wikipedia has not managed to enlighten me of the various types of rock formations (Rock formation redirects here), but rather focuses on listing some countries' rock formations. Is this an encyclopedia, or a bloody tourist boucher? - 60.51.125.125 (talk) 03:27, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unquestionably the most famous "rock formation" is that of the Beatles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.145.145.29 (talk) 22:00, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

gold[edit]

gold — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.114.172.167 (talk) 15:26, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

what about?[edit]

I see a picture of an arch, are rock formations different than say a Hoodoo or an Arch? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.3.57.82 (talk) 13:44, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Rock formation[edit]

The best name for the article is rock formation. And would include the differences with rocky outcrop.--Lagoset (talk) 12:58, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]