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Article: Column-shaped rocks found in Valley Springs not simple rocks.
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- Record (Stockton, CA)
- Article date:
- December 29, 2006
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Byline: Dana M. Nichols
Dec. 29--VALLEY SPRINGS -- Historians here recently stumbled onto an ancient mystery from the bowels of the earth: strange hexagonal columns of metamorphic rock very much like the columns at Devil's Postpile National Monument near Mammoth Lakes.
Although the columns have been lying in plain sight above ground at several historic spots around Valley Springs for the past 38 years, they are now covered with moss, and few people living know what they are or how they got there or even notice them.
"I guess over the years people forgot what they were," said Sal Manna, the historian who recently located three of the rocks near ...
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