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Pinnacles National MonumentA view of the High Peaks
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A close-up view of rhyolite breccia  

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Rhyolitic breccia is the rock that the High Peaks and other rock formations at Pinnacles are made of. Rhyolite breccia is composed of lava sand, ash, and angular chunks of rock that were explosively ejected from the Pinnacles Volcano.

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