Channeled Scablands - Frenchman Coulee

A rock climber ascends a wall of cracked basalt.
Photo By/Credit
Michael Melford/National Geographic Society
Date Shot/Created
03/27/2023
Media Usage Rights/License
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Image
A wall of basalt at Frenchman Coulee lures rock climbers and shows the shrinkage cracks that formed in cooling lava millions of years ago.
Subject tags
Floods
Geology
Physical geography