Rock shelter

Often, the rock stratum just below the more resistant shelf will be of a softer type, meaning that undercutting due to splashback will occur here to form a shallow cave-like formation known as a rock shelter under and behind the waterfall.

The word cave can refer to smaller openings such as sea caves, rock shelters, and grottos, that extend a relatively short distance into the rock and they are called exogene caves.

Many cliffs also feature tributary waterfalls or rock shelters.

Living in rock shelters and "leatherman caves", as they are now locally known, the Leatherman stopped at towns along his 365 mi loop about every five weeks for food and supplies.

This rare plant is found only in cool sandstone rock shelters, on the moist sandy cave floors behind the drip line.

This park features 2,606 acre of wooded hills, including many bluffs and rock shelters, centered around a man-made lake.

A Ciconia bone found in a rock shelter on the island of Réunion was probably of a bird taken there as food by early settlers; no known account mentions the presence of storks on the Mascarene Islands.

The softer rock stratum erodes away creating rock shelters, or alcoves, on opposite sides of the formation beneath the relatively harder stratum, or caprock, above it.

The county's bedrock is deeply incised by the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River and its tributaries, creating sheer cliffs, gorges, waterfalls, rock shelters, and natural stone arches.

After the death of his wife, Baker became a recluse and lived in a rock house (rockshelter) near the mouth of Buffalo Creek, where he died in 1820.