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Junction Butte basalt displays columnar jointing Overhanging Cliff

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Outcrop of the Junction Butte basalt alongside the road at Overhanging Cliff. The zone of prominent columnar jointing at the base of this thick lava flow formed by contraction cooling; it overlies stream-deposited sediments and is overlain by a zone of irregularly intersecting joints.

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