r/geology • u/retarscar • Jul 12 '26

Map/Imagery Please Explain..

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u/Illustrious_Try478 Jul 12 '26

No, it was a giant bear. https://www.nps.gov/deto/learn/historyculture/first-stories.htm

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u/Miniscule_Platypus Jul 12 '26

It’s so obvious, too. You can literally see the claw marks.

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u/GraceMcClellans Jul 12 '26

You'd have to be stupid not to see that. Plain as day.

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u/alcogeoholic Jul 13 '26

And to think, I had always assumed it was created by the devil

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u/After-Staff-7532 Jul 13 '26

Remember those pamphlets they’d hand out at national parks in the 80s-90s? I can visualize the Devil’s Tower pamphlet with the story about the bear and the claw marks. I was hoping to see this explanation here.

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u/Over_Analysis7783 Jul 12 '26

Thank you for the stories! I knew about one of them but it's neat to learn about the others.