Rock Formations & Stone Assemblages That Look Like Pants

[poozler]

A geological structure in Nunavut, Canada, has been "found" and has been acknowledged as real and not photoshopped. I am assuming the local people have known about this for a while since it has a name (Qarlinngua or Like Pants). It's quite beautiful.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/qarlinngua-nunavut-arctic-bay-hidden-sea-arch-1.4515601

 

[James_H]

If I may quote Coleridge:

And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,

 

[EnolaGaia]

Qarlinngua is an impressive example of a pants-style sea arch, but it's not as old a formation as this bell-bottomed specimen from the Middle Hippaeozoic ...

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[blessmycottonsocks]

Am I alone in feeling the structure looks more like legs or trousers than pants?

 

[hunck]

Am I alone in feeling the structure looks more like legs or trousers than pants?

Must be the US version of pants - from pantaloons - which does mean trousers, rather than the UK pants which usually means underpants.

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

I was being somewhat facetious, as I know Americans call trousers "pants", whereas my pants most definitely have no legs but possess a distinct y-shape at the front (except when I wear my mock leopard skin posing pouch of course).

So, when translating this indigenous term into English English, I would have thought "like trousers" would fit the bill better.

 

[Andy X]

Or "britches-ish"?

"Strideslike"?

We have some great British nicknames for the underpant: Knickers, kecks, trollies, undercrackers, shreddies...

Such fun

 

[Swifty]

I was being somewhat facetious, as I know Americans call trousers "pants", whereas my pants most definitely have no legs but possess a distinct y-shape at the front (except when I wear my mock leopard skin posing pouch of course).

So, when translating this indigenous term into English English, I would have thought "like trousers" would fit the bill better.

I can't speak for everyone but I thought 'like trousers' myself, as a Brit or English person who grew up in the 70's, this is what I think of as pants .. underwear .. perhaps Y Fronts ..

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

So your challenge, forumists, is to find a photo of a rock structure that looks "like (y-front) pants".

 

[David Plankton]

 

[poozler]

Am I alone in feeling the structure looks more like legs or trousers than pants?

This is Canada, not UK, so the translation would be Canadian English for trousers (pants).

 

[Swifty]

So your challenge, forumists, is to find a photo of a rock structure that looks "like (y-front) pants".

This is the best I can do ..

http://www.swbg.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Penallta_-_Y-fronts_Wall