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Talcott Basalt Lava Pillows

Meriden, CT

An exposed rock face behind a shopping area preserves rounded basalt structures formed when ancient lava encountered water. The strange pillow-like shapes are remnants of volcanic activity roughly 200 million years old hiding in an otherwise ordinary commercial landscape.

Filed under roadside oddities: giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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