This website is to help others learn and appreciate tafoni and to shed light on how the tafoni develop.

The site is organized according to the following pages (bold headings) and sub-pages (indented).

Welcome

Definition                  

    What are tafoni?

    Etymology

    Kinds of tafoni
    Challenges classifying tafoni

    Kinds of rocks
    Ways to initiate a pit

Locations

    Places tafoni develop
    Kinds of climates

    Geometry of tafoni structures

Weathering

    Kinds of weathering processes

    Differential weathering

    Salt
    Other factors

Evolution

    Ways to change over time

    Rates of change

    Evidence of change (Recommended).

    An evolutionary stage model

    Overview

Links/Extras

    References

    Site Map (current page)

Gallery

    An album of photographs of tafoni from Northern California

    An album of photographs of tafoni from around the world

Contact