Editing Elephants' graveyard (section)

==Derivative meanings==
* In [[geology]], "elephants' graveyard" is an informal term for a hypothetical accumulation of "large blocks of [[country rock (geology)|country rock]] [[Stoping (geology)|stoped]] from the roofs of [[batholith]]s".<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Clarke | first1 = D. Barrie | last2 = Henry |first2 =  Andrew S.|last3 = White |first3 = Mary Anne | title = Exploding xenoliths and the absence of 'elephants' graveyards' in granite batholiths | journal = Journal of Structural Geology | volume = 20 | issue = 9–10 | pages = 1325–1343 | date = 10 September 1998 | doi = 10.1016/S0191-8141(98)00082-0| bibcode = 1998JSG....20.1325C }}</ref>  
*In [[military]] settings, it is sometimes used as a slang term to describe postings or assignments for senior officers for whom there is no potential for further promotion.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}}
* In Spain, the [[Spanish Senate]] is often criticised as a ''cementerio de elefantes'' where politicians who have lost their previous positions end up doing no productive work.<ref name="Vanguardia">{{in lang|es}} ''[http://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20150707/54433270527/pp-psoe-echan-cara-utilicen-senado-cementerio-elefantes.html PP y PSOE se echan en cara que utilicen el Senado como cementerio de elefantes]'', Juan Carlos Merino,  7 July 2015,  [[La Vanguardia]].</ref>
* It is a term for the offices and a secretary provided to former high-ranking executives of large companies (at least in the United States), who have either retired or resigned. An executive who relinquishes or is relieved of authority becomes a consultant (special adviser) where they continue to receive a salary and an office under their contract but have little or no actual responsibilities  until their [[Non-compete clause|non-compete agreement]] expires.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/magazine/ina-drew-jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-chase.html |title=The Woman Who Took the Fall for JPMorgan Chase |last=Dominus |first=Susan |date=October 3, 2012 |work=New York Times |access-date=May 9, 2016 }}</ref>
Additionally the term "elephants' graveyard" has been deliberately used in a symbolic fashion to refer to specific paleontological sites, such as the elephant-fossil deposit that [[René Jeannel]], professor at the [[National Museum of Natural History, France|French National Museum of Natural History]], discovered during a Kenya & [[Ethiopia]] expedition in 1932.<ref>René Jeannel, ''Mission scientifique de l'Omo. Un cimetière d'éléphants avec 48 planches de photographies et une carte hors texte'', Paris, publisher: [[Friends of the Natural History Museum Paris|Société des Amis du Muséum]], 1934, in-8, sofcover (270 x 185 mm), 159 pp, ASIN B0000DSYFT {{in lang|fr}}</ref>