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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.
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.
Location: Reynisfjara, Iceland
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i’m not sure i’ve ever been in a place that looked so much like a modernist painting before — a touristy locale that i totally want to go back to…
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.
I took this photo in Iceland during a recent trip along this amazing country. This cascade is Svartifoss, one of the most famous cascades in Iceland, located in the Skaftafell National Park. It is a singular waterfall due to the basaltic formations that surround the cascade.
In this case I placed my tripod in the center of the water stream to capture the water flow and used a long exposure to obtain that nice effect on the water.
A must see place if you travel to Iceland
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.
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.
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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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Palouse Falls
Palouse Falls State Park Heritage Site
Washington
August 2025
Palouse Falls, tucked within southeastern Washington’s rugged canyon country, is one of the state’s most dramatic natural wonders. Plunging 198 feet into a churning pool below, the waterfall is a remnant of the Ice Age floods that carved the unique basalt landscape of the Palouse River canyon. Surrounding cliffs showcase striking layers of dark volcanic rock, adding to the falls’ raw beauty.
On the banks of the North Umpqua River below the Soda Springs Dam. Umpqua National Forest, Oregon USA.
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.
[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.
a bit closer
Aspicilia, Candelariella, Lecidea, Protoparmeliopsis, Rhizocarpon, Rhizoplaca, Umbilicaria
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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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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.
While exploring the rugged coastline of Hellnar beach in Iceland, I came across this interesting rock formation. Time, weather, tides, all working to shape and eventually break down this dark rock.
If you happen to visit Helena beach, take time to explore the interesting basalt rock formations and the cliff area that juts out into the sea called Valasnös cliff which contains Baðstofa, one of the most unusual caves in Iceland.
Lewis and Clark State Recreation Site, Oregon.
Autumn 2021.
Tri-X 400 and Olympus Stylus Zoom 140 (point and shoot).
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.
The yellow is caused by lichens growing on the surface of these columns.
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
During the cooling of a thick lava flow, contractional joints or fractures form (in basalt). If a flow cools relatively rapidly, significant contraction forces build up.
While a flow can shrink in the vertical dimension without fracturing, it can't easily accommodate shrinking in the horizontal direction unless cracks form; the extensive fracture network that develops results in the formation of columns.
The topology of the lateral shapes of these columns can broadly be classed as a random cellular network. These structures are predominantly hexagonal in cross-section, but polygons with three to twelve or more sides can be observed.
The size of the columns depends loosely on the rate of cooling; very rapid cooling may result in very small (<1 cm diameter) columns, while slow cooling is more likely to produce large columns.
Basalt columns stand like a fortress on the black sand beach at Vik. These columns form when basaltic lava is cooled rapidly, and as the lava solidifies, vertical cracks are formed by the stress of the rock’s cooling and contracting. The growth of the fractures, or joints, are perpendicular to the surface of the flow, and as they continue to grow, they form a closely-spaced regular array of columns or polygonal prisms. This process is called columnar jointing. The individual prisms can have 3 to 8 sides. Examples of this can be scene all over Iceland. In the U.S. The Devils Postpile in Mammoth California has a great example of this also. You could easily spend an hour just photographing these rocks ... I did. Vik, Iceland, April 2021
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