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Columnar Basalt 

  part of the Columbia River Basalt Group

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

Ascending Reecer canyon Road, Kittitas County, Washington

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Author brewbooks from near Seattle, USA
Camera location47° 12′ 40.43″ N, 120° 34′ 18.39″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by brewbooks at https://flickr.com/photos/93452909@N00/7454138612. It was reviewed on 22 October 2016 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0.

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