This is not the best angle to photograph this rock, but I liked the Moon rising above the Granite Range near Gerlach, Nevada. This glob of basalt squeezed up through a small fissure on the southern end of the Modoc Plateau ~25million/yrs ago. Then during the Pleistocene, Lake Lahontan filled the Smoke Creek Desert & underwater springs coated this rock with calcite (CaCO3) forming tufa. Today, the tufa has partially sloughed off.

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