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Home to a variety of animals, including kangaroos and wallabies, the rock basin known as Wilpena Pound was carved from ancient mountains by erosion. The high walls of rock are made of weather-resistant quartzite. (Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Rise of Life on Earth—Life Grows Up," April 1998, National Geographic magazine) Photograph by O. Louis Mazzatenta