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Cooling joints in the basalt are visible across the Yellowstone River at the Calcite Springs Overlook. The basalt sits on top of Pliocene/Pleistocene gravels on the river’s east side.
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 :)
Location: Reynisfjara, Iceland
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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.
Taken at Black Basalt Beach
Gray Skies over a dark sandy beach, wet sand sticks to your toes.
Ocean scents carried in the wind, salt on your tongue.
You watch shadows dancing off the Basalt cliffs and rocks on the shore.
You want to stay a little more, Welcome to Black Basalt Beach.
Lewis and Clark State Recreation Site, Oregon.
Autumn 2021.
Tri-X 400 and Olympus Stylus Zoom 140 (point and shoot).
Painted Desert, part of Petrified Forest National Park.
A basalt cap overlays the Bidahochi formation above the Chinle formation. An estimated 305 meter layer appears to have been eroded away between the two formations.
The Basalt Velvet Gecko (Oedura atra) is a very recent addition to the Australian Gecko species tally, as it was described earlier this year (Hoskin, 2025).
Reid, Nathan and I were fortunate enough to travel down to Hughenden and get onto a couple of specimens recently. So here is a portrait of a clean adult male from the basalt escarpment country that they inhabit.
Hoskin, C.J. (2025) A new species of velvet gecko (Diplodactylidae: Oedura) from basalt habitat of inland north Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa, 5583 (3), 549–559.
Der Nuraghe besteht aus einer runden Tholos (italienisch monotorre) von etwa 13,25 m Außendurchmesser und 11,8 m Resthöhe. Ihre Basis ist aus großen, leicht abgesenkten Blöcken aus Basalt gebaut, auf denen gut zugearbeitete Felsen mit bis zum Niveau der rechteckigen Fensternische (0,7 m breit, 1,25 m hoch) in nach oben abnehmender Größe aufliegen. Von dieser Höhe aus nehmen die in den letzten Reihen perfekt quadratisch gearbeiteten Steine wieder an Volumen zu.
Der im Südosten liegende Zugang ist ungewöhnlich klein. Er hat eine Breite von 1,1 m und eine Höhe von 1,05 m. Er zeichnet sich durch den sorgfältig gearbeiteten, größten Sturz einer Nuraghe aus (Länge 3,65 m, Breite 1,5 m, Dicke mittig 1,1 m) und hat eine leicht gekrümmte Front, um sich dem Profil des Turms anzupassen. (Wikipedia)
Vikingbugt Inlet in Scoresby Sund, East Greenland has a great display of columnar basalt, formed when lava flows cool slowly and shrinks forming hexagonal cracks that can be dozens of feet long. There were some beautiful sweeping curves in this geological formation with the reddish colour of the rocks coming from iron.
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Basalt columns rising in a phalanx of stone, near the Boise River. The route up looked impassable, but John knew a way and eventually we found ourselves on the top, looking down.
Detail from a large drum-shaped building on the waterfront in Akureyri on the north coast of Iceland. The geometric basalt columns that are a common feature of Icelandic geology have been sliced and affixed to the exterior, with attention to spacing so that whole columns frame all openings. The effect is quite striking - one could easily picture a whole town built this way - but the earthquake-conscious Californian in me worries a lot about how the stone is attached.
Menningarhúsið Hof
Akureyri
Iceland
The brightly painted Chac mool holding a basin is on the platform of a temple to Tlaloc, the rain god. The second stage of the Templo Mayor, ca. 1400, was encapsulated by several expansions built over the course of the 15th century. The whole complex was destroyed in 1521 by the Spanish.
Aldeyjarfoss on the Skjálfandafljót river in northern Iceland has easily become one of my favourite places when we saw it for the first time during our visit in 2019. The area has some fantastic basalt columns and the surrounding lava field provides plenty of superb textures and drama to the scene.
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I had wanted to photograph this location for a long time. Its an amazing place and I was glad to get a good sunrise on this particular morning. Please view large on black (press L). Thanks for viewing.
The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills.
The Reynisfjara black sand beach is one of the usual "touristy" stops on the south coast of Iceland. Here to see the basalt columns or the rocky sea stacks just off shore known as Reynisdranger it is certainly an amazing site! The site was also used in Game of Thrones season 7 in "North of the Wall". Local legend says the basalt columns were once trolls trying to pull ships from the ocean to shore. However, these trolls were dim and went out too late in the night; dawn broke on the horizon, turning the trolls into solid stone.
[EN] There is a perfectly developed columnar separation in the hill body of olivine alkaline basalt (stone organ), with an extraordinary length of up to 30 meters of stone columns.
[CZ] Je zde k vidění dokonale vyvinutá sloupcová odlučnost v tělese kopce. Složení - olivínický alkalický čedič (kamenné varhany) s mimořádnou, až 30metrovou délkou kamenných sloupů.
From the Giants Causeway looking across the Port Nuffer (bay) you can make out the Organ Pipes. These are hexagonal basalt columns that have been exposed in the cliffs. An amazing site. We also loved the neon green hexagon in the foreground - could it be an alien footprint?
a bit closer
Aspicilia, Candelariella, Lecidea, Protoparmeliopsis, Rhizocarpon, Rhizoplaca, Umbilicaria
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Cala Grande, Cabo de Gata, Almería.
La luz solar, del tardío amanecer, sobresale entre las nubes, irradiando con una potentísima luz dorada allá donde llega.
Los restos erosionados de una gran formación de basalto se tornan dorados contrastando con el cielo azul típico del mediterráneo.
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澎湖桶盤嶼玄武岩之美
桶盤嶼位於澎湖本島西南方，
面積約0.4平方公里，行政區劃屬馬公市。
在馬公市中心西南方約七公里處，約20分鐘船程。
Penghu Doong Parn Island Basalts
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Basalt Columns. © Copyright 2021 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Basalt columns at Devil’s Postpile National Monument.
The existence of this photograph can be credited to two women. The first is my wife Patricia Mitchell. We were in the Eastern Sierra in a the autumn a few years ago to photograph fall colors. On this morning we were supposed to get up early and go photograph aspens, but we were lazy — we slept in and enjoyed breakfast, which is not the typical photographer’s ritual. Devil’s Postpile seemed like a potential option for photography a bit later in the morning, so that’s where we went. Arriving, I wasn’t so sure — there were crowds and the early light was gone — and initially I was going to leave my camera behind and just walk over and take a look… but “someone” urged me to bring the camera gear along just in case.
The second woman who played an (unknown to her) role in the appearance of this photograph is friend and photographer Franka Mlikota Gabler. She recently shared a set of lovely photographs of this location, and these photographs got me thinking about my one visit to the place… and inspired me to back into the raw file archive, where I found this photograph from that lazy morning when I almost left my camera behind.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.