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SPLIT ROCK LIGHTHOUSE STATE PARK MODERATE DIFFICULT Further to the south is Day Hill with its excellent views of the lighthouse in one direction, and Corundum and Split Rock points in the other. The lighthouse stands poised at the edge of a bold, 124-foot-high diabase cliff capped with anorthosite, the same rock that forms Day Hill and nearby Corundum Point. Diabase is a lava formation that is, along with anorthosite, very resistant to erosion. This resistance to erosion accounts for the prominence of the cliff, and the lighthouse, along the North Shore. Probably the first thing that catches your eye

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Best family vacation USA

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SPLIT ROCK LIGHTHOUSE STATE PARK Anorthosite Outcroppings North Shore Abrasives wasn’t the only company to mistake anorthosite for corundum. The Country Abrasives Company (MAC), now known as 3M, had corundum mine sites further up the North Shore in what are now Tettegouche and Temperance River state parks. In Two Harbors 100 Years, the story is that they made only one sale of their product. In March 1904, MAC sold one ton of corundum to Champion Corundum Wheel Company for $20. When MAC learned that what they really had was anorthosite, they kept it a secret from their investors long enough

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