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When you get to this cache location take a look to the West and soak in the view of Pine Valley Mountain. Pine Valley Mountain is a Laccolith and is one of the largest in the world. A laccolith is a sheet intrusion (or concordant pluton) that has been injected between two layers of sedimentary rock. The pressure of the magma is high enough that the overlying strata are forced upward, giving the laccolith a dome or mushroom-like form with a generally planar base.
Pine Valley Mountains are a Laccolith, one of the largest in the World. Utah has other large Laccolith including the Henry Mountains. Laccolith are extremely interesting but a real puzzle to Geologists. They are supposedly formed by an intrusion of one type of rock into another. Normally something like igneous (molten lava) into layers of sedimentary rock. The problem is that the outer layers forming these intrusions have nearly all dissapeared. Leaving mountains that look like normal mountains but of a different structure to the surrounding area.
The Pine Valley Mountains look like normal mountains because they are normal mountains. The only reason they are not "normal" mountains is because Geology says they can not be. This has caused some brilliant explanations for the creation of them and others like them. Maybe it is simple. gEUlogy says they are normal mountains like all the other mountains around them and around the world.
What has caused Geology to tell the Earth it does not know what it is doing and is wrong? The mineral they are made up of (granite) is different to the red/orange sandstone that the rest of the area is mainly composed or covered with. Red sandstone is a special sign of Electric Universe activity, as seen all over the world.
Although the PVM's appear to be normal mountains rising out of the landscape they can not be "normal" because the material they are made of, in its location, does not allow for this. What You See Is What You Get. The rock was changed when the mountains were formed. Notice that they are like a Lichtenberg Pattern, which is the discharge of electrical charge/current.
There are many examples of possible laccoliths on the surface of the Moon. These igneous features may be confused with impact cratering
To log this cache answer (in theory) the following:
1. If the Pine Valley Mountain are Laccolith's then how do they look like normal mountains?
2. How do they have a ridge?
3. How has the Pine Valley itself been eroded away, how do ridges/valleys cut across each other?
4. On the opposite side of the Pine Valley Mountain sign from the mountain information is a year when the sign was erected. What is the year?
5 Optioinal: photo to verify location would be great.
*data from gEUlogy and Wikipedia
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