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Fractures in the Breakfast Hill granite of the Rye Complex

By New England Water Science Center 2025 (approx.)
A large fracture in a granite rock.
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A fracture in granite within New Hampshire's Rye Complex, one of two lithotectonic belts in the state's coastal region. 

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