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What produces columnar jointing in lava flows? What will be an ideal response?

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What other bodies in the solar system are thought to possess active volcanoes? What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

Contraction during cooling.

Answer to Question 2

Io, a moon of Jupiter, and perhaps Triton, a moon of Neptune.



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