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Sleeping Indian, Oregon, USA


U.S. Bureau of Land Management photo by John Craig (fair use policy)

Sleeping Indian is a basalt edifice near the John Day River of eastern Oregon, in the Columbia Plateau. Under the rugged slab that forms its picturesque top is a thick layer of basalt rock that shows columnar jointing, like a handful of pencils.

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