Rock shelter

Rock shelter in the Little Carpathians

A rock shelter is a shallow cave-like opening at the bottom of a cliff. Rock shelters form because a rock stratum that does not erode has formed a cliff. But a weaker stratum, that erodes a lot is under the resistant stratum. As it erodes it creates an opening at the bottom of the cliff.

Rock Shelter Media

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  Rockhouse Cliffs Rock Shelter

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  Rock shelter in the Little Carpathians

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  Shepherds' rock shelter in Lahaul, India

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  Bawa Yawan rockshelter, sieving of excavated deposits at a Paleolithic site in Iranian Zagros, April 2017

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  Rock shelter atStrouds Run State Park

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  Rock shelter formation by frost weathering.

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  By cutting a karst gallery

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  Rock shelter formation by river erosion.