Rock shelter

File:Rock shelter Papula.jpg

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

• Rockhouse Cliffs Rockshelter.jpg

  Rockhouse Cliffs Rock Shelter

• Rock shelter Papula.jpg

  Rock shelter in the Little Carpathians

• Shepherds' rock shelter, Lahaul.jpg

  Shepherds' rock shelter in Lahaul, India

• Excavation at Paleolithic site of Bawa Yawan, Zagros, Iran 2017.jpg

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

• Turtleheadcave.jpg

  Rock shelter atStrouds Run State Park

• Rock shelter formation by frost weathering.svg

  Rock shelter formation by frost weathering.

• Rock shelter formation by karst gallery cutting.svg

  By cutting a karst gallery

• Rock shelter formation by river erosion.svg

  Rock shelter formation by river erosion.