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Known as a fault scarp, this type of feature is “very common in Hawaii” as magma near volcanoes causes the surface to expand and crack, says Robert Craddock from the Smithsonian Institution, a co-author on the paper.

They'd just finished creating a trail to the fault scarp when I discovered the place.

It's possibly a fault scarp, and it is all awesome, because you can find chunks of our native bedrock in it.

This is a chunk of very coarse sandstone fallen from the possible fault scarp.

After taking your side trip along the fault scarp trail, head around to the tip of the peninsula and look north toward the I-90 bridge.