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Part of Hall of Planet Earth.
AMNH/R.Mickens
This sample illustrates the hollow nature of many pillow basalts. The pillow inflates from the magma’s pressure, but when the eruption cases, some magma drains back, creating an interior cavity. The pillow cools and contracts, forming fractures that radiate from the interior.
Loaned by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography