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Excerpt from Contributions to the Geography of the United States, 1923-1924 The relative effect of wind and water in the production of the characteristic and usually picturesque scenery of arid regions is still a moot question. Various criteria that have been put forward as indicating wind erosion are of uncertain value. For instance, pedestal rocks occurring in arid regions are Cited as proof of wind erosion, though it has long been known that such rocks are also produced by differential weathering in humid regions.1 The citation in a French textbook2 of the Devil's Table, on the limestone escarpment above the Meuse near St. Mihiel, France, as an example of Wind erosion seems quite certainly erroneous and may serve as an example of the length to which faulty interpretation has been carried. General statements that pedestal rocks, also called hoodoo rocks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.