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HENRYS LAKE RANGE
The Henrys Lake Mountains are a mixture of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks and volcanic materials including rhyolite and basalt with some Precambrian metamorphic rocks thrown in for good measure. The range, which was forced up with the uplifting of the Rocky Mountains, has most recently been shaped by glaciation and the nearby Henrys Fork and Island Park calderas and the collapsed volcanoes that preceded them. One of these volcanoes covered more than 6,000 square miles of Idaho and Montana with red-hot ash and other materials.
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