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  1. High-res shot of the falls and columnar basalts.

  2. This GigaPan illustrates the Yellowstone River eroding down through a series of sediments and lava flows that have filled its valley in the last two million years. The prominent columnar jointed lava flows across the canyon are about 2 million years old and sandwich a layer of probable glacial till. The light was gre...

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  3. This is Rubini Rock, which is situated within sight of Sedova Station on Hooker Island in Franz Josef Land. This rock is a very special place for nesting seabirds. There are countless columns of basalt arranged at various angles that provide places for the birds to set down safely above most arctic predators. Overh...

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  4. Low-res wide angle shot.

  5. See if you can figure out the geologic history exposed in this roadcut.

  6. This porphyritic (olivine phenocrysts) vesicular basalt was collected from a roadcut on the southwest rift zone of Mauna Loa in Hawaii. I believe that it is from the 1907 lava flows in that area, though I'm not certain of that. I'm curious to see how the focus will work on a relatively flat (but not cut) surface. Th...

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  7. Latourell is unique among the best-known Columbia Gorge waterfalls, in the way that it drops straight down from an overhanging basalt cliff.

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  8. Whitman College geologists investigate beach outcrops of invasive basaltic dikes and sills just south of Seal Rock State Park on Oregon coast

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        May 02, 2011
        Date Taken
        April 30, 2011
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  9. View from South Rim of Big Chico Creek Canyon - all of the lands within view in the canyon in this picture are in Bidwell Park or CSU, Chico's Ecological Reserve.

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  10. Sunrise in NW Namibia in an area characterised by it's flat topped Basalt mountains.

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