The story of past ages revealed in the face of the City Corporation quarry on the Second Beach at St. Clair. The peculiar rock formation is known as columnar basalt, which is formed by the shrinking of lava as it cools-a process of the remote past.
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Evening Star, Issue 21460, 11 July 1933, Page 7
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46The story of past ages revealed in the face of the City Corporation quarry on the Second Beach at St. Clair. The peculiar rock formation is known as columnar basalt, which is formed by the shrinking of lava as it cools-a process of the remote past. Evening Star, Issue 21460, 11 July 1933, Page 7
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