Carrizo Badlands Basaltic Intrusion

Carrizo Badlands Basaltic Intrusion
Name:Basaltic Intrusion
Date:10/27/2006
Location:Canyon Sin Nombre

This incredibly bright shade of pastel purple is a basaltic andesite, an extrusive igneous rock, formed by viscous lava flow. This lava formation dates back some 7 to 5 million years ago, a relative youngster of this canyon formation. An unconformity rest above the basaltic unit and is a relatively recent formation. (Bloom, 2006)


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