Colonnes basaltiques (Rouyn-Noranda)
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 1.34 mi
- Elevation gain
- 154 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 154 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,102 ft
- TrailRank
- 39
- Min elevation
- 816 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- 34 minutes
- Time
- one hour 25 minutes
- Coordinates
- 381
- Uploaded
- August 12, 2018
- Recorded
- August 2018
near Caron, Québec (Canada)
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Organs or basaltic columns of hexagonal or honeycomb form.
Follow the path and go near the lake, then turn right into the woods and stay on the rock caps. Since there is no way, go with a GPS
Follow the path and go near the lake, then turn right into the woods and stay on the rock caps. Since there is no way, go with a GPS
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1,053 ft
Colonnes basaltiques
Geological formation composed of regular columns. It results from the solidification and thermal contraction of a basaltic flow shortly after its emission. The lower part, which cools or dries more slowly, fractures from the surface to the depth in the form of sub-vertical prisms with a hexagonal section of decimetric order. These columns are surmounted by a zone of smaller, less regular prisms (or "false prism") that can be combined into sheaves.
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941 ft
Orgues basaltiques
This comes from the retraction of lava flows during cooling. Cracks produced by the contraction of cooling lava flows preferably cut hexagons.
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