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Based on the rocks they contain, predict how Devils Tower and the Giant's Causeway formed. Explain your answer in terms of extrusive and intrusive rocks and the observations you made of both formations.

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Answer:

What do you mean based on the rocks they contain? what rocks do they contain

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Slowly cooling lava will shrink in volume and a pattern of regularly spaced cracks and fissures will form. In case of the Devils Tower, the columns are tilted to the base suggesting also that the cooling surface, the walls of the volcanic plug, were tilted towards the outside.
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