Many features found in South Coyote Buttes have this same
striking appearance. What could cause rocks to be shaped this
way? Explain your answer.

Explanation:

Buttes and mesas are profound features of rock erosion and weathering activities over an extended period of time.

A butte is a smaller land form compared to mesas. They are made up of flat tops and very steep to vertically sided slopes along their height.

They are typically created by erosion. The most profound action of wind and water erosion carves out a butte.

since there isn't any suggested answers i will give you the reason and hopefully you can figure it

south africa, or rather all of africa, has not been in the location in which it is nowadays throughout the geological past. after the super-continent pangaea started to break apart, gondwanaland, in which was africa, moved further south, and parts of it came to be very close to the south pole. because the climate in this part of the world is very cold due to the very dispersed sun rays in there, what is now south africa, started to freeze, and the conditions were right for the formation of glaciers. the glaciers existed up until the period when gondwanaland started to break apart and what is now africa started to move towards north, sp it warmed up and the glaciers melted.