"slickrock" meaning in English

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          "text": "Rubber or cord soles are best for climbing over “slickrocks.” Well-advised tenderfeet keep shirt collars buttoned and sleeves rolled down, for the desert and high mountain sun burns mercilessly.",
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          "ref": "1971, Edward Abbey, Slickrock: Endangered Canyons of the Southwest, →ISBN, page 11:",
          "text": "Breaking camp the next morning, I asked Kent Frost about the origin of the term slickrock. “It isn’t necessarily limited to any particular geological formation?” I asked. ¶ “No, it isn’t,” Kent said. “It’s more like the whole country is slickrock, even where it’s crumbling away.”",
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        "A rock or a rock formation made smooth by weathering."
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