- Rock pedestals are irregular shaped pillars with alternate horizontal layers of hard and soft rook which are easily wearied away by wind.
- lnselbergs are remains of hills or plateaux, which have been cut down to their present height by wind. Or put simply as rock islands located on plains.
- Zeugen are flat-topped rock masses that have formed into a ridge and furrow landscape in the desert. It is also a tabular mass of resistant rock underlain by a layer of soft rock.
- Yardangs are vertically arranged. They occur when bands of hard and soft rocks lie parallel due to prevailing wind thereby forming a series of sharp, irregular rock crests separated from one another by deep groves.
- Mesa and Butte: This is a table- like land mass with a very resistant horizontal top layer and very steep sides.