The Queen of Soul was the first woman to be honored in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Along the walls and in the caves are designs or symbols carved into the rock or painted on it.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

The muscular man is working hard to control a powerful drill that is cutting through the rock that surrounds him.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

He said rock climbing is a high risk sport in which many people overestimate their abilities and underestimate the rock.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

And we report on new members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and play some of their music.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

The only other reggae musician in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is the other major reggae star, Bob Marley.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

They drill down to the shale, then go sideways and inject high-pressure water, sand or other material into the rock.

VOA: special.2009.10.23

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary with two concerts later this month in New York City.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Visitors can stand at the top of the mesas and look into the dwellings almost hidden in openings of the rock walls.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

Then,within the last twenty million years, movements in the earth pushed the rock upward, forming the Guadalupe Mountains.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

Giant faces of four great American presidents are cut into the rock near the top of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

Bones,hair,feathers, even the remains of plants have been found in deep, dry caves high in the rock walls.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

Scientists say the presence of iron in the rock shows that the weather was hot and dry when the rock was first formed.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

The rock formations there are the result of deposits made by ancient lakes and rivers over a period of about twenty million years.

VOA: special.2009.04.15