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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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It does not contain elements made by people.
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.
An old volcano (180 million years) with giant boulders of volcanic basalt.Interesting to see how the shape is re-inforce by the moss.
This is an image from a trip to Iceland last year with my brother and his family. It was not a photo trip but I managed to take a few shots here and there. This is Hengifoss which is located in Fljótsdalshreppur, East Iceland and is reached by walking uphill through a beautiful canyon complex for around one hour. It is the 3rd highest waterfall in Iceland. The cliffs are made of basalt with layers of red clay interspersed. A 6 stop ND filter and circular polariser were used to quell some of the glare.
Basalt Rocks just off the Isle of Staffa, I just loved the shape did they fall over when they were formed or later, they are an amazing rock formation.
Dense orographic clouds shroud the Ko’olau mountains at the He’eia Stream headland. With a ridgeline elevation of 1,600 feet in this area, these intermittent waterfalls plunge hundreds of feet dissecting and carving the basalt of the windward pali. As it always does, water will eventually win, and the island will erode to a coral atoll.
From lofty orographic peaks,
A waterfall through rainforest leaps.
In tumbling, silvery, glistening mirth,
It recycles back to its ocean birth. -RW
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Am glad this beautiful waterfall is not accessible for the mass tourists as you need at least a four wheel car or a bicycle, in my case, to get there as it is on a rough road inland, stayed at Fosshol and had to cycle up and down, love the cycling except for the last 5 km which is a really bad road but once there, it's compensating all the effort to get there, don't think there a lot of big waterfalls worldwide in such a beautiful basalt environment
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Fingal is located in the Tweed Region just south of the Tweed River. Fingal Head boasts some of the most spectacular examples of columnar jointing to be found. The columnar basalt lava flow at Fingal Head extends underwater to Cook Island. The jointing is caused by contraction, as lava cools from the outside toward the centre, shrinkage cracks develop, usually forming hexagonal patterns (the shape of the columns is attributed to tensional stress). These columns are vertical because the lava cools from top to bottom when the flow of lava is horizontal.
The Reynisdrangar sea stacks and black sand beach beside Vik, viewed from under the basalt column cave at dawn. This is a 2 shot pano to get the full arch in.
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Across Tower Creek from the Tower Fall overlook is an eroded outcrop of the Junction Butte Basalt. This lava flowed about 2 million years ago, after Yellowstone’s first great caldera-forming eruption created the Huckleberry Ridge Caldera 2.1 million years ago. The lava was extruded north and outside of the caldera.
Columnar basalt at the base of Reynisfjall, at the edge of the black sand beach of Reynisfjara.
Near Vík í Mýrdal in southern Iceland
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Vík, Iceland. Photo collaboration with Nick.
The falls are quite beautiful, and it's a treacherous climb down to the bottom if you feel so inclined. I'm sure it's beautiful from the bottom down there, but after Iceland I may be ruined on waterfalls for some time to come.
Close by there is a great place for hotsprings, and bathing. Also close by Crater lake. A must stop by spot if you're in there area as it's a quick jaunt, and quite lovely. Although the trail might be slightly challenging for older or less able folk.
Horizontal stack of basalt columns offshore near the village of Arnarstapi, along Iceland's volcanic Snæfellsnes Peninsula.
Aldeyjarfoss waterfall at the north of Sprengisandur sands in the northern part of the Icelandic Highlands, N-Iceland.
A gorgeous day spent driving around, photographing and getting into adventures with my friend Lára.
The first time I had gone to Svartifoss I barely remembered it. Once we arrived I understood why: Svartifoss really is the most overrated waterfall in Iceland. And the worst thing, we had to walk three kilometers uphill. She barely complained. But I'm sure she will forget about Svartifoss, like me years ago.
At the harbor in Stykkishólmur. There are stairs to the top, but we didn't have the time or inclination this trip, as it was quite cold and windy during our wait for the ferry to the Westfjords.
Vertical basalt columns (columnar jointing) in northeast Iceland.
As lava cools down, it contracts and forms cracks. Geologists believe that columnar jointing forms when the lava surface is exposed to water shortly after it stops advancing, causing it to cool quickly. This can happen when lava flows dam rivers and streams.
This is the rock is visible at the top of the cliffs at Kalae on the Island of Hawaii. Basalt with holes or vesicules making up to 50% of the rock is called vesicular basalt. (When the vesicles are over half the volume of a specimen, it is called scoria.) These textures forms when dissolved gases come out of solution and form bubbles as the magma decompresses at the surface. Some gas escapes yet other gas bubbles get trapped in the lava as it quickly hardens. The holes are left by the traped gases.