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Cliffs of Condor Gulch

This view of rhyolite cliffs is near the falls along the Condor Gulch Trail. Rhyolite is a volcanic rock that is similar to granite in composition (mostly quartz and feldspar) but because if formed from rapidly-cooling lava ejected from the volcano, mineral crystals are too small to see.

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