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Columnar jointing in the Devils Postpile, an imperfect hexagonal lattice, and commonalities with other natural and constructed features

Abstract

Columns in the Devils Postpile, eastern California, occur in hexagonal domains stitched together by chains and clusters of pentagons and heptagons, a geometrical pattern, also found in honeycombs and graphene, that forms a centroidal Voronoi tessellation.