File:Crackled under pressure by glaciers and Lake Superior.jpg

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North shore of Lake Superior showing a billion years of stress.

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English: Cracks in old lava, more an amorphous glass than blocks in the fracture patterns, stress arcs and planes running every which way. The lake was frozen very deep a time or three and great pressure resulted from temperature changes and glacial loading forces.
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Author David L. Hasse
Camera location47° 00′ 00″ N, 91° 00′ 00″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Illustrates morphology of magmatic deposit under pressure.

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