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Developing cave

Yachats, Oregon. The light gray rock is old mudstone, the reddish-black rock is overlying basalt lava. The little knob of light gray rock in the red-black lava? Probably stirred up and mixed into the lava as it flowed over. This is called "breccia." The cave is probably developing along a seam of loosely congealed breccia. Cool? Cool.

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Uploaded on October 14, 2005