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The track takes you to a viewpoint at the end of a narrow hogback overlooking Vermillion Creek.
From the denverpost.com
The fire reported on a hogback Friday grew overnight and was burning on dense brush and tall grasses on rocky terrain.
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The path through the hogback features a massive cut that exposes various layers of rock millions of years old.
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Eroded monoclines leave steeply tilted resistant rock called a hogback and the less steep version is a cuesta.
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Wagon beds had to be emptied of cargo, then hauled up on long chains tethered to teams pulling on flat ground above the hogback ridge.
From the sacbee.com
This hike crosses through the Irish Canyon, above, to grasslands, badlands and a view atop a hogback overlooking Vermillion Creek Canyon.
From the denverpost.com
A number of place-names, in particular a cluster on the coast facing the Cumbraes, and monuments such as the hogback graves at Govan, are some of the remains of these newcomers.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A uniquely Anglo-Scandinavian form is the hogback, low grave-marker shaped like a long house with a pitched roof, and sometimes muzzled bears clutching on to each end.
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- A narrow ridge of hills
- A hogback is a homoclinal ridge, formed from a monocline, composed of steeply tilted strata of rock protruding from the surrounding area. The name comes from the ridge resembling the high, knobby spine between the shoulders of a hog. ...
- Hogbacks are stone carved Viking sculptures from 10th-12th century England and Scotland. Their function is generally accepted as grave markers.
- An eroded, steeply tilted ridge of resistant rocks with equal slopes on the sides.
- A formation similar to a Cuesta in that it is a ridge formed by slower erosion of hard strata, but having two steep, equally inclined slopes.
- A sharp-crested, symmetric ridge formed by the differential erosion of highly tilted and resistant rock layers.
- Ridge formed by erosion of resistant, steeply inclined sedimentary layers.
- A low, sharp ridge with steep sides of nearly equal inclination, formed from the edge of an upturned layer of rock resistant to erosion. [AHDOS]
