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A photo of The Columbia River Gorge

June 2011 (approx.)

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View of the Columbia River Gorge north of the Ginkgo Petrified Forest visitor center. The boulder in the foreground is a vesicular basalt (lava rock filled with gas bubbles that formed when the rock was still in a molten state).

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A photo of The Columbia River Gorge

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