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Figure 6C. The contact between a dike (brown rock to the left) and the Kittery Formation (gray rock to the right) is a structurally weaker zone in which the rock is more easily broken and eroded by the sea. This produces a prominent "step" in the outcrop surface.


Last updated on October 4, 2012