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The Bungle Bungles: Towering domes in the Australian outback that contain traces of the earliest life-forms on Earth

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The Bungle Bungles are a collection of sandstone towers with distinctive orange and dark-gray stripes in Western Australia .

They are the main feature of Purnululu National Park , a protected area spanning almost 600,000 acres ( 240,000 hectares ) in the Kimberley region.

The sandstone was deposited roughly 360 million years ago and eroded through the joint action of wind and water.