File:White granite intruding black basalt.jpg

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Description Divide and conquer, the stoping action of white granite intruding black basalt. Some sections of the give-and-take are up to 25 m wide along a 5 km long contact. The rocks are Precambrian or 3 billion years old. The near-vertical scatches = glacial striations (view large) are Quaternary or 10,000 years old.
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Author Mike Beauregard from Nunavut, Canada
Camera location62° 10′ 51.77″ N, 92° 34′ 53.19″ 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 subarcticmike at https://www.flickr.com/photos/31856336@N03/4822840294. It was reviewed on 28 January 2011 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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