Map-rock, a bedding-plane surface feature in Glen Canyon, Utah, consists of rods of limonite in rectangular patterns that resemble city street-maps. The limonite is derived from similarly arranged pyrite. Rectangular arrangement may come from molds of thin deposits of crystalline halite.

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