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Comments on Gigapan: Pillow Basalts 1

  2. First in a series of pans of exposures of the Talcott basalt (early Jurassic age, ~200 million years old) in Meriden, CT Pillow basalts form when lava is erupted underneath water (typically oceans, but in this case a briny lake). The water quickly cools the outside of the lava, but the inside is still pushing outwa...

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  1. Ron Schott

    Ron Schott (March 09, 2009, 03:51PM )

    Makes me sleepy just looking at them. Gorgeous rocks, Jen!