Map showing the access road and hiking trail to Palisades Falls.

The Palisades Falls over a thick lava flow with lovely columnar jointing.

The lava flow in the image above is seen here at the top of the image. It rests on top of a boulder conglomerate, probably a river deposit. A similar deposit is visible at the bottom right of this image. In the middle is a finer-grained deposit containing mostly angular and subrounded fragments in a finer-grained, perhaps muddy matrix. This may be a mudflow deposit, perhaps a lahar.

Closer view of the lava flow base, the layers of rounded boulder conglomerate, and at the bottom the angular block deposit that may be a lahar.