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columnar jointing



columnar jointing

Columnar jointing

(Courtesy U.S. Bureau of Land Management)
 

Columnar jointing results when basalt or (other igneous rocks) cools from the outside in causing shrinkage and the development hexagonal joint structure.

 

 

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