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(reminds me of the Giant's Causeway)
This spectacular columnar joint pattern in lava exposed in Alaska's Suemez Island formed when the lava flowed next to a glacier about 700,000 years ago. CREDIT: Susan Karl, U.S. Geological Survey

A Blast of a Find: 12 New Alaskan Volcanoes

1 posted on 06/08/2013 10:58:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Textbook worthy photo!


6 posted on 06/08/2013 11:49:23 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: SunkenCiv
that's so COOL.. :-D

8 posted on 06/08/2013 12:29:51 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: SunkenCiv
"The maar is about 13,800 years old, Baichtal said."

That's about the same time a comet hit, eh?

9 posted on 06/08/2013 1:46:14 PM PDT by blam
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To: SunkenCiv; NormsRevenge

Thanks.


11 posted on 06/08/2013 4:23:00 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: SunkenCiv

Basalt flows is neat stuff. Devil’s Postpile in California has similar type flows.


12 posted on 06/08/2013 4:42:21 PM PDT by csvset
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To: SunkenCiv

How beautiful! I’d love to see it in person.


15 posted on 06/09/2013 12:41:12 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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