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According to local Icelandic folklore, these large basalt columns were once trolls trying to pull ships from the ocean to shore. ... The man followed the trolls down to Reynisfjara where he froze them, ensuring that they would never kill again.
Steps from basalt chunks (here a field stone) over crushed stone and gravel to basalt powder. Paving stones are laid on gravel, then fine gravel and the joints are filled with the finest grade of basalt flour.
At 2500 km², the Vogelsberg is the largest contiguous volcanic area in Central Europe. There are large basalt quarries here.
Stufen vom Basaltbrocken (hier ein Ackerstein) über Schotter und Kies bis zum Basaltmehl. Pflastersteine werden auf Schotter, dann feinem Kies verlegt und die Fugen werden mit der feinsten Stufe dem Basaltmehl verfüllt.
Der Vogelsberg ist mit 2500 km² das größte zusammenhängende Vulkangebiet Mitteleuropas. Es gibt hier große Basaltsteinbrüche.
Where the land ends and the horizon begins. Exploring the stark, beautiful geometry of the volcanic coast under a restless sky.
Over a period of 20 million years, giant fissures would split open the earth in eastern Washington, time after time spewing molten lava over tens of thousands of square miles, creating multiple layers of now dried and cracked basalt rock. So many layers that, in some places, there are over 10,000 feet of them. Each layer is about 75 to 100 feet thick, a few of which can be seen above near the Potholes Reservoir. These lava beds extend over eastern Washington between 3 rivers, the Spokane, Columbia and the Snake, and into parts of Idaho and Oregon. Then, about 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, huge lakes of melt water were dammed up by arms of a glacier, which eventually melted, and this huge amount of water roared over the basalt beds, carving, tearing and gouging as it went, creating the Channeled Scablands visible today. The geology of eastern Washington is unique and well worth studying, and even better, visiting in person!
Snaesfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland, 2022
Iceland is sitting on a rift zone between two tectonic plates. Volcanic activity gave birth and formed this island. Therefore 80% of Iceland‘s land mass is made up of basalt.
All the vegetation here seems to be one species of tree. Didn’t see that anywhere else on the Big Island—a very spare ecosystem. Not confident of the precise location, looking upslope, I think. Last lava flow here on Mauna Loa might have been 1868, 1887, 1907.
Happy Tree Thursday!
[EN] Columnar separation of basalt arises under specific conditions of lava solidification. Mostly gradual solidification under specific conditions
[CZ] Slloupcová odlučnost čediče (bazaltu) vzniká při specifických podmínkách tuhnutí lávy. Většinou pozvolné tuhnutí za specifických podmínek
I was absolutely amazed to find this location during our last journey. It would not be out of place in Iceland, but it is actually in Australia. I had no idea places like this even existed in our beautiful country. There is always something new to discover though. I decided to process this scene in black and white, as I thought that textures, detail and contrast would really shine in monochrome.
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Lollarer Kopf biotope reserve near Giessen
A quarry was operated on the basalt hilltop until the end of the 1980s.
Over the years, however, nature has reclaimed the approximately 4-hectare quarry site.
Today, it is a biotope reserve with many rare plant and animal species.
Hesse, Germany 02.03.2021
Basaltsteinbruch
Biotopschutzgebiet Lollarer Kopf bei Gießen
An der Basaltkuppe wurde bis Ende der 80er Jahre ein Steinbruch betrieben.
Die Natur hat sich aber im Laufe der Jahre die ca. 4 ha große Abbruchfläche wieder zurückerobert.
Heute ist es ein Biotopschutzgebiet mit vielen seltenen Pflanzen und Tierarten.
Hessen, Deutschland 02.03.2021
1222 erstmals erwähnt, hat die Burg Stolpen viel Licht und noch mehr Schatten erlebt. Hussiten, Schweden, Preußen und Franzosen schlugen Narben in die Festung, Pest und Brände zogen über sie hinweg. Berühmt ist die Burg vor allem durch Machtspiele am sächsischen Hof. Ihnen verdient Stolpen seine berühmteste Bewohnerin: die Gräfin Cosel. Fast ein halbes Jahrhundert verharrte die verbannte Anna Constantia Reichsgräfin von Cosel bis zu ihrem Tod hinter den Burgmauern. Die kluge Mätresse Augusts des Starken hatte sich politische Feinde gemacht und fiel dem Opportunismus ihres kurfürstlichen Bettgenossen zum Opfer. Hart wie das Schicksal der Cosel ist auch der Basalt, auf dem die Burg Stolpen steht. Zusammen mit dem weltweit tiefsten nicht ausgebauten Basaltbrunnen ist er ein Nationales Geotop.
Quelle: www.burg-stolpen.org/
A portion of the Svartifoss waterfall in Skaftafell National Park, Iceland.
The rock at the base of the falls is a unique columnar basalt.
A great morning on the long, stony Reynishverfi beach near Vík... I even had warm coffee with me! :-)
Nice while I was waiting for my long exposures to be finished ;-)
The sunrise created some really nice colors behind and above the Reynisdrangar sea stacks and the hexagonally shaped columnar basalt rising from the beach had this soft glow over it.
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To know that the Caribbean island of Aruba was formed by volcanic processes, one need only to make the short trip to the eastern Atlantic Ocean side of the isle where wave action batters the shore due to the steady tradewinds from the northeast. This wave action leaves the underlying rock exposed. In the foreground you see basalt rocks and a basalt outcropping on the left; in the middle ground on the other side of this little cove you see the remains of an ancient lava flow.
Well, I never shoot landscapes, I believe I don't have the talent required to capture the feeling, but this one at BBB I really wanted to give it a try.
For some, Black Basalt Beach was their home, for some was just a relaxing moment hearing the beautiful tunes of the sim and for some was just the place they created their wonderful captures....
My greatest respects to the creator of this amazing sim... it surely will be missed....
Upright basalt pillars on the shore near Glenarm, Co Antrim. (Natural features - as opposed to manmade standing stones)
Reynisfjara black beach, Iceland.
Basalt columns in the cave at Reynisfjara black beach gets illuminated by winter evening sunlight to expose intricate details of the rock.
Il s'agit du meilleur ensemble paysager volcanique de la péninsule Ibérique. On y recense une quarantaine de cônes volcaniques, en bon état de conservation, et plus de vingt coulées de lave de nature basaltique.
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A basalt dike cuts trough Paleozoic limestones in this road cut along the Chief Joseph Highway (WY 296) in Shoshone National Forest northwest of Cody Wyoming. The basalt is part of a volcanic complex known as the Absaroka Volcanics Supergroup which is Eocene in age and was active between 53 and 43 million years ago. In the middle of the photo talus covers part of the dike.
An Igneous dike is a planar to irregularly-planar igneous intrusion that cut across country rocks in a vertical or oblique orientation. A dike forms when lava pushes up through cracks, fractures or fissures in a host rock. In the Absaroka Volcanics dikes usually radiate out from volcanic centers in swarms. At this location the host rocks are Paleozoic limestones and dolomites that were deposited in a shallow sea and then uplifted during the creation of the Rocky Mountains.This photo shows the top of the dike at a point where quit intruding upward into the host rock at this particular location.
ARNARSTAPI is a village in the southern part of the Snaefellsnes peninsula, Iceland.
The beach holds a particular attraction and its cliffs are absolutely amazing. The interplay of waves and the light of the sun creates a fascinating spectacle.
Large colonies of the arctic tern also nest in the area.
Iceland, September 2015.
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Nouvelle année oblige ... il va falloir faire un peu de ménage dans les vieux dossiers ; cela permet par la même occasion de replonger dans les bons moments (même si pour cette photo, j'ai terminé les pieds mouillés :) ) et les paysages magnifiques.
Ici, une plage de sable noir magnifique d'Islande où trône une imposante colonne basaltique face à une mer quelque peu tumultueuse :)
Wilbur and I are standing on the tops of basalt columns, created by lava flows many thousands of years ago. Blowing dirt has filled in around the columns. A few of the hikers from our group can be seen crossing the valley below us. That valley is part of the Drumheller Channels created by the ice age floods.
A basalt dike cuts trough Paleozoic limestones in this road cut along the Chief Joseph Highway (WY 296) in Shoshone National Forest northwest of Cody Wyoming. The basalt is part of a volcanic complex known as the Absaroka Volcanics Supergroup which is Eocene in age and was active between 53 and 43 million years ago.
An Igneous dike is a planar to irregularly-planar igneous intrusion that cut across country rocks in a vertical or oblique orientation. A dike forms when lava pushes up through cracks, fractures or fissures in a host rock. In the Absaroka Volcanics dikes usually radiate out from volcanic centers in swarms. At this location the host rocks are Paleozoic limestones and dolomites that were deposited in a shallow sea and then uplifted during the creation of the Rocky Mountains.This photo shows the top of the dike at a point where quit intruding upward into the host rock at this particular location. This is a 2 dimensional view of a 3 dimensional planar igneous body.