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20130831-_DSC9325-Ireland Tour Day Six

There is simply no way to adequately describe the causeway with pictures or words. It's a large swath of stones that are all geometrically fashioned. Most are in hexagon shapes, sometimes with a few more or a few less sides. all the sides are flat, naturally formed that way out of basalt and other stones. It's amazing. Additionally, many have spherical tops and bottoms that fit into each other, as they're cracked between. Supposedly, Fionn built the causeway to challenge Benandonner. Geologists say that it was created when a volcano erupted, covering the area in lava. Some settled in deep pools. The top cooled off quickly, making weak rock, and the bottom cooled slowly, gradually forming basalt and other rocks, which cracked in even patterns, horizontally and vertically. The erosion has left the geometric shapes after many years.

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Uploaded on September 2, 2013
Taken on August 31, 2013