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Columnar Jointing in Basalt

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From Andrew Alden, About.com

The joints (cracks with no displacement) in this thick basalt flow at Yellowstone form well-developed columns. See other examples from Wyoming and Oregon.

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Cracked in all directionsU.S. Geological Survey photo by S. R. Brantley.

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