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Joseph Beuys
»Das Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts« 1971
Sammlung Marx
Leihgabe an die
Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof
Detail
„Als Zeichen des menschlichen Fortschritts hat Beuys aus jeder Basalt-Stele einen Kegel herausgeschnitten. Diese Kegel wurden mit Filz umwickelt und dann wieder eingesetzt.“ (aus dem Erläuterungstext der NG)
A full set of "Spinal Layout" hot stones for LaStone Therapy.
They're not placed in the spinal layout.
Basalt stones, hand harvested in New Mexico and Arizona.
With pair of tingsha for size comparison.
Oval Andesite Grey Basalt 19.3 x 15 Vessel Sink - COCOON
Only available for sale here goo.gl/M5bKBJ
Oval Oblong natural stone vessel sink COCOON - 19-2/3" x 15" x 6" - genuine interior decoration trendy gray andesite (basalt). The "Exceptional" cut in the block without any comparison with plastic and other chemical resin market often incredibly expensive.
Make your bathroom outstanding, unique, and friendly with Living'ROC creations! Looking like a bird's nest its oblong curves evokes a place of well-being and healing. The basin is not only beautiful to look at it is also functional with its height and its edges allowing a large amount of water.
All our vessel sinks are the creation of a combined group of talented masons dedicated to the idea of creating bathware made from natural material, which is environmentally friendly. Waterproofed COCOON is ready to use, sitting on a vanity counter top.
If you wish to standardize your project, you can choose among a wide range of our Trendy gray granite shower trays carved from the same material (very similar color and same honed finish) as it came from the same quarry and most often from the same block of stone. Spacium, Palaos, Quasar or Dalaos.
This vessel sink is Highly resistant to chipping and scratching, withstands hot temperatures, tolerant to very high temperature changes.
Our creation COCOON is delivered without an overflow drain (not included) - every US drains models you can find on the market will fit perfectly on Living'ROC vessel sink. This model is ready to use over the countertop.
(screen capture video from the Driffellshraun web camera)
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A basaltic fissure eruption commenced in the late afternoon, local time, on 10 July 2023, next to a hill called Litli Hrútur in southwestern Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula. This followed a week of high seismic activity, with well over 7,000 earthquakes reported.
Update: the eruption ceased in early August 2023.
Iceland is a volcanic island in the North Atlantic Ocean between Britain and Greenland. It is situated on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, along which the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate separate and new oceanic crust forms. Seismicity in the area is due to subsurface magma movement from hotspot (mantle plume) activity, as well as seafloor spreading (= tectonic divergence). Magma reaching the surface results in volcanic eruptions. Some famous eruptions in Iceland include Laki (1783), Surtsey (1963-1967), Eldfell (1973), Hekla (1991, 2000), Eyjafjallajökull (2010), and Grimsvötn (2011).
Amygdaloidal basalt is a vesicular basalt that has had the original vesicles (gas bubbles in lava) subsequently filled with secondary minerals.
Stratigraphy: unrecorded (but possibly eroded from the Portage Lake Volcanic Series, Bergland Group, middle Keweenawan Supergroup, upper Mesoproterozoic, 1.093 to 1.097 Ga)
Locality: water-worn clast from an unrecorded site (but possibly from the shoreline of Lake Superior)
Joseph Beuys
»Das Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts« 1971
Sammlung Marx
Leihgabe an die
Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof
Detail
„Als Zeichen des menschlichen Fortschritts hat Beuys aus jeder Basalt-Stele einen Kegel herausgeschnitten. Diese Kegel wurden mit Filz umwickelt und dann wieder eingesetzt.“ (aus dem Erläuterungstext der NG)
Oval Andesite Grey Basalt 19.3 x 15 Vessel Sink - COCOON
Only available for sale here goo.gl/M5bKBJ
Oval Oblong natural stone vessel sink COCOON - 19-2/3" x 15" x 6" - genuine interior decoration trendy gray andesite (basalt). The "Exceptional" cut in the block without any comparison with plastic and other chemical resin market often incredibly expensive.
Make your bathroom outstanding, unique, and friendly with Living'ROC creations! Looking like a bird's nest its oblong curves evokes a place of well-being and healing. The basin is not only beautiful to look at it is also functional with its height and its edges allowing a large amount of water.
All our vessel sinks are the creation of a combined group of talented masons dedicated to the idea of creating bathware made from natural material, which is environmentally friendly. Waterproofed COCOON is ready to use, sitting on a vanity counter top.
If you wish to standardize your project, you can choose among a wide range of our Trendy gray granite shower trays carved from the same material (very similar color and same honed finish) as it came from the same quarry and most often from the same block of stone. Spacium, Palaos, Quasar or Dalaos.
This vessel sink is Highly resistant to chipping and scratching, withstands hot temperatures, tolerant to very high temperature changes.
Our creation COCOON is delivered without an overflow drain (not included) - every US drains models you can find on the market will fit perfectly on Living'ROC vessel sink. This model is ready to use over the countertop.
Yukon Delta NWR
Basaltic lava beds surround the active volcanoes found on the refuge. Photo taken during a ducks unlimited vegetation survey.
Photo Credit: Fred Broerman
We drove along the Snake River Valley until we took a detour north to see Palouse Falls. This part of south-east Washington State is nothing but basalt flows - up to 300 of them - with a little soil on top.
It's not clear to me at what point we arrived on Snaefellsnes Peninsula; 54 heads north from Borgarnes and then bends westward. Just before that bend happens, one reaches Eldborg, and a dirt road heads east towards the Eldborg crater. Along that dirt road are these fine basalt columns. Iceland
(Web camera screen capture video clip taken on 2 May 2021)
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Iceland is a volcanic island in the North Atlantic Ocean between Britain and Greenland. It is situated on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, along which the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate separate and new oceanic crust forms. Seismicity in the area is due to subsurface magma movement from hotspot (mantle plume) activity, as well as seafloor spreading (= tectonic divergence). Magma reaching the surface results in volcanic eruptions. Some famous eruptions in Iceland include Laki (1783), Surtsey (1963-1967), Eldfell (1973), Hekla (1991, 2000), Eyjafjallajökull (2010), and Grimsvötn (2011).
On 19 March 2021, a basaltic lava flow eruption started in the Geldingadalur Valley, next to the Fagradalsfjall Volcano in southwestern Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula. This followed a swarm of about 50,000 earthquakes that occurred during the previous month. The eruption reportedly started as a fissure eruption - lava was spewed from an extensive crack in the ground. This evolved into a short chain of spatter cones, one of which ended up being larger than the others (= main cone). Subsequent activity resulted in a second sizable spatter cone that developed next to the main cone. Eruptive activity continued into April 2021. Both "original" spatter cones had diminished or ceased significant activity by late April 2021.
On 5 April 2021, a new fissure eruption started nearby, close to Merardalir Valley (see: www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/51104474410 ). The fissure eruption rapidly evolved into a line of small spatter cones. On 13 April 2021, additional small spatter cones emerged between the Geldingadalur Valley examples and the near-Merardalir Valley examples.
The active spatter cone seen here has apparently grown from one of the ~mid-April 2021 structures.
Overnight, in the early morning of 2 May 2021, this spatter cone started having pauses and restarts. Pause durations increased as the morning hours progressed. Restarts involved impressively high lava fountaining.
Spatter cones are small to very small, steep-sided volcanic cones formed by the accumulation and solidification of blobs of lava that sputtered from a vent. They are usually basaltic in composition.
This natural arch formed by partial collapse of a lava tube cave in northern California's Lava Beds National Monument. The park is covered in basalt lava flows that erupted from various spatter cone and cinder cone volcanoes. The lava field is located to the north of the very large Medicine Lake Shield Volcano (volcanocafe.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/mlv-nolan.png), which has erupted a variety of materials, including basalt, andesite, rhyolite, dacite, obsidian, and pumice (see: www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/15036576775). The Medicine Lake Volcano and nearby lava fields are just east of the Cascade Range, which formed by subduction of the Juan de Fuca Plate underneath the North American Plate. Both California's Medicine Lake Volcano and Oregon's Newberry Volcano occur east of the Cascade Range's central axis and are thought to be back-arc volcanic centers.
Basaltic lava flows move as sheets or as lobes or in discrete channels. Channels often cool and crust over, forming subsurface lava tubes. After the lava supply ceases, the tubes often drain, leaving behind caves. Some of these are big enough to walk through. Lava Beds National Monument has a high concentration of lava tube caves, many of which are publicly accessible by walking or crawling. Collapse and partial collapse prevents easy access to the entire lava tube network.
Shown above is a portion of Labyrinth Cave, accessible along Cave Loop Road, near the park's visitor center. There are several entrances to various segments of Labyrinth Cave: Blue Grotto Entrance, Hopkins Chocolate Cave Entrance (= this site), Golden Dome Cave Entrance, Thunderbolt Cave Entrance (= Labyrinth Entrance), Lava Brook Cave Entrance, East Labyrinth Cave Entrance, Mushpot Cave Entrance, and Arch Cave Entrance.
This lava tube cave complex is developed in the Mammoth Crater Flow, which erupted during the Late Pleistocene at ~35,000 years ago. The eruptive center was Mammoth Crater, at the southern edge of the park. Observed lithologies of the Mammoth Crater Flow include basalt and vesicular basalt.
Stratigraphy: Mammoth Crater Flow, Upper Pleistocene, 35 ka
Locality: Hopkins Chocolate Cave, next to Cave Loop Road in Lava Beds National Monument, far-eastern Siskiyou County, far-northern California, USA (41° 42' 32.76" North latitude, 121° 30' 50.58" West longitude)
Head of a statue of a man.
5th dynasty.
This piece is on loan from Ernst von Siemens.
Neues Museum, Berlin
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Basaltic lava flows typically solidify quickly. Solidification can take place in just a few seconds for small bits of spatter or it can takes week or many months for lava lakes. This is a piece of basalt from a recent eruption of Pu'u 'O'o on the Big Island of Hawaii. It cooled very quick and produced an iridescent glassy glaze probably created by rapid oxidation and the formation of microscopic minerals. Note also the many pore space created by gases escaping from the cooling lava.
Cliff-side outcropping of pillow basalt (extrusive volcanic rock) along the west side of the port facilities at Port San Luis, north end of San Luis Obispo Bay, between San Luis Obispo and Pismo Beach (Central Coast), California. Pillow basalts form during underwater volcanic eruptions (see Kilauea, Hawaii). These rocks are deep-water Franciscan, probably Jurassic-Cretaceous in age. This was a completely unexpected find for me so I only had my Iphone and the sun was in a bad position for photographing this, but it was such a spectacular outcrop that I had to grab some photos to share.
Basalt rock columns in the Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Basalt is one of the most common volcanic rocks. Magma which cools rapidly at the surface includes very fine grains of crystal, leaving a black or grey rock. Basalt cannot contain more than 20 percent quartz and less than 10 percent feldspar. At least 65 percent of the feldspar must be plagioclase (in other words, a type of feldspar in which the sodium and calcium atoms can substitute for one another and where two crystals can share part of the lattice and grow side by side).
When basalt cools very closely, the crystals form hexagonal structures. Vast fields of these columns can form, some of them very wide in diameter.
The name for basalt is taken from the Ancient Greek word basanos ("touchstone").
Amygdaloidal basalt is a vesicular basalt that has had the original vesicles (gas bubbles in lava) subsequently filled with secondary minerals.
Stratigraphy: unrecorded (but possibly eroded from the Portage Lake Volcanic Series, Bergland Group, middle Keweenawan Supergroup, upper Mesoproterozoic, 1.093 to 1.097 Ga)
Locality: water-worn clast from an unrecorded site (but possibly from the shoreline of Lake Superior)
(Web camera screen capture video clip taken on 17 May 2021)
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Iceland is a volcanic island in the North Atlantic Ocean between Britain and Greenland. It is situated on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, along which the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate separate and new oceanic crust forms. Seismicity in the area is due to subsurface magma movement from hotspot (mantle plume) activity, as well as seafloor spreading (= tectonic divergence). Magma reaching the surface results in volcanic eruptions. Some famous eruptions in Iceland include Laki (1783), Surtsey (1963-1967), Eldfell (1973), Hekla (1991, 2000), Eyjafjallajökull (2010), and Grimsvötn (2011).
On 19 March 2021, a basaltic lava flow eruption started in the Geldingadalur Valley, next to the Fagradalsfjall Volcano in southwestern Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula. This followed a swarm of about 50,000 earthquakes that occurred during the previous month. The eruption reportedly started as a fissure eruption - lava was spewed from an extensive crack in the ground. This evolved into a short chain of spatter cones, one of which ended up being larger than the others (= main cone). Subsequent activity resulted in a second sizable spatter cone that developed next to the main cone. Eruptive activity continued into April 2021. Both "original" spatter cones had ceased activity by late April 2021.
On 5 April 2021, a new fissure eruption started nearby, close to Merardalir Valley (see: www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/51104474410 ). The fissure eruption rapidly evolved into a line of small spatter cones. On 13 April 2021, additional small spatter cones emerged between the Geldingadalur Valley examples and the near-Merardalir Valley examples.
The active cone seen here has grown from one of the ~mid-April 2021 structures. Overnight, in the early morning of 2 May 2021, this cone started having pauses and restarts. Pause durations increased as the morning hours progressed. Restarts involved impressively high lava fountaining. This behavior continued over the following weeks. In the early morning of 7 May 2021, tall lava fountaining occurred with a ~7.5 to 12 minute periodicity. In the late evening of 17 May and early morning of 18 May, fountaining occurred every 7 to 8 minutes.
Note: the web camera has been out of focus for the previous 1.5 weeks. The rim of this cone has grown considerably in height since 7 May 2021.
Snæfellsjökull park. Snæfellsnes peninsula.
Uniquely-formed remnants of ancient basalt volcanic dikes sticking out from the sea.
Londrangar and the hill Svalthufa are the remains of a crater, which has been eroded to its present form by the sea.
The farmers in the area never made or make hay on the hill, because it is said to belong to the elves living in the area.
Younger lava fields surround this old crater ruin. The higher pillar (75m) was first climbed in 1735 and the lower (61 m) in 1938.
Below the hill you may find Thufubjarg cliff where according to a folktale the poet Kolbeinn Joklaskald had an encounter with the Devil.
On these cliffs, puffins and fulmars have their nests.
not as well defined as at Staffa, Giant's Causeway etc. but basaltic columns all the same.
West coast of Flores, Azores
I am told the lack of trees is not caused by man, but by the basalt rock the soil sits on that prevents the trees taking root. The trees to the right were introduced to protect the farmhouse behind. The Abbot of the Russian Orthodox monastery, nearby, believes gum trees, Eucalpyts, spread and die back as a result of changes in the salinity of the soil, resulting from changes in rainfall over a long period. Interesting idea, I thought. View the big version by clicking on the down arrow to the right.