basalt with quartz xenolith

The Giants' Causeway, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland

Drumadoon Point on the island of Arran.

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Beautiful are the only words I can use to desbribe this place

These are the ruins of the city of Capernaum The black basalt is actually dates back before the 1st century. The village was devastated by earthquakes repeatedly and newer portions of it were constructed with white limestone a few centuries later.

You can also see a Greek Orthodox monastery in the distance.

LOCATION:

Capernaum, Israel

DATE TAKEN:

November 25th, 2017

Columnar basalt (cooled lava) on Bagley Lakes trail near Mount Baker.

Textured Basalt Pedstal

A view from near the lighthouse and basalt columns at Fingal Heads in New South Wales, Australia.

Another columnar basalt pattern on the North Side of Ancient Lakes Coulee

Basalt ?doorjamb. Site s84. Site at Ancient Homeh. Sizeable (c. 450x150m) complex with a surprising amount of decorated and inscribed masonry, much reused in the kubbes that still exist here. Situated on crosslink (f39) between qunats f44 and f38. (El Anderin, Syria).

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Broughton Formation, Red Point

basalt with bleck crystal xenolith

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Cliffs of columnar basalt seen from the bus as it climbed up through the pine forests on the slopes of Mount Teide

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Looks a little like its cousin at the Giant's Causeway!

Hand-carved Basalt.

Coastal Basalt, Oregon Zoo. Portland, OR.

MRO image of sand dunes (in blue, indicating basalt) on Mars.

Reynisfjara Beach, Iceland

by Angela Danadjieva

photos by Riisa Conklin

Lava flows have been cut through to form the Columbia River Gorge. , Washington side view. The dark horizontal lines in the foreground are railroad tracks.

Basalt Black 2007 rear quarter. Dusky country road in Maine.

pillow basalt

type section at Crescent Bay

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Material:basalt

sizes:3mm-5mm---45mm-50mm

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John Day River, Oregon

Down to the waterline.

Hansweert - Zeeland, The Netherlands.

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Tumble polished Basalt

Basalt is volcanic lava. This boulder came from a Scottish volcano that erupted 60 million years ago. It was brought to Saffron Walden by the Anglian ice sheet 450,000 years ago

This is the shot which got me absolutely drenched by an incoming wave. Well, I was already pretty drenched from the rain, but the wave finished me off!

La Tourell Falls streaming past bright lichen (?) and twisted basalt columns

With it's basalt foundation showing

Government Prairie, Arizona.

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