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STRETCHED THIN. Rock in samples of obsidian collected at California's Big Glass Mountain can take different forms: fragmented and reconsolidated (top), slightly elongated (center), or stretched into thin layers (bottom, close-up). This progressive elongation reflects the forces that shape the taffylike magma inside a volcano. Credit: H. Gonnermann
Found in: Earth Science

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