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White Rock

A river of white rock snakes within its darker surroundings, providing evidence that it had a greater viscosity than the darker rock. Geologists refer to this kind of formation as ptygmatic folding. A penny shows the scale of the size of this folding, which is highly irregular.

Photograph by Marli Miller, University of Oregon