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Uplifted Columnar basalt Mount Rainier National Park A few miles below Sunrise Point at a roadcut This basalt forms in columns which are oriented vertically, with the polygons (in this case mainly hexagons) forming as the basalt cools and shrinks. A similar phenomena occurs with needle ice or pipkrake ice crystals. Basalt

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Camera location46° 54′ 43.69″ N, 121° 34′ 56.75″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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