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Wing Dike of Hardened Lava in New Mexico
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Wing Dike of Hardened Lava in New Mexico

NASA / JPL · 2017-01-25 · photograph (digital archive)

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This photograph from northwestern New Mexico shows a ridge roughly 30 feet about 10 meters tall that formed from lava filling an underground fracture then resisting erosion better than the material around it did. The dike extends from a volcanic peak (out of view here) called Shiprock in English and Tsé Bit'a'í, meaning "rock with wings," in the Navajo language.

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Credit lineWing Dike of Hardened Lava in New Mexico. NASA/JPL, 2017-01-25. Public domain. ID: PIA21266.
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