New model for formation of Devil’s Tower (Bear Lodge)
Devil’s Tower National Monument in Wyoming is a fascinating structure. It contains the longest known columnar joints, cracks in rock formed as igneous rocks cool and contract, in the world. Most textbooks today say that Devils Tower formed as part of a laccolith; a body of magma that intruded into shallow sediments by pushing the sediments above it into a dome. If enough of the sediments eroded away, the igneous rock could be exposed.
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