Bedrock Granite Bubbles and Uplift

The top boulder layer is the bedrock up which the hopping wall jumps.

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The hopping walls face is outlined in yellow below, and the arrow points to the rectangle quarry.

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Symmetrical granite uplift…Does granite fracture cleanly like this?  How?  What geologic force caused this?  Certainly not glaciers.IMG_4163.jpg

Another similar but larger jumbled pile of massive boulders showing slicing:

 

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Below is the largest bubble of granite I’ve seen.  It is about 300 feet from side to side and not fully explored.  In the center is a bizarre “centerpiece”

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Here is the centerpiece.  It is smooth against the rest of the rock and appears to have sprouted a Tree.  Two smoothed boulders appear wedged in the center.

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