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Most people see them from the Tower Road on the other side the river - but this trail takes you close-up.
Looks like it's sitting atop a pyroclastic flow, identified by the geologists among us.
Yellowstone National Park.
Explored # 169, November 18, 2014.
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Lava after cooling, formed columns of basaltic rocks.
La lave, après refroidissement, a formé des colonnes de roches basaltiques.
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El basalto es una roca ígnea volcánica de color oscuro.
Este trozo corresponde a la piedra que forma parte de un llavero que compré en un viaje a la magnífica isla de Islandia.
Os dejo otra foto para que veáis su tamaño original.
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Basalt is a dark volcanic igneous rock.
This piece corresponds to a stone that is part of a keyring that I bought on a trip to the magnificent island of Iceland.
In this other photography you can see its original size.
I love the white of the water against the black basalt, so it could be a mini Black Falls!
This one is visible from R1 but if you blinked you would miss it as you drive by.
There is a roadside stopping place here so I'd done my research and tagged this location for lunch :-)
Usually there is a bit more water flowing!
Found the most amazing basalt formation - couldn't resist a classic 'person in front of a big scene' style shot...
Accidental finding that many of the basalt rocks in my back yard have some fluorescent CaCO3 coating, probably containing some organic material. Gives me the chance to do rock hounding at night! Compare daylight (top) and UV light (bottom)!
The bedrock of Northern Minnesota. Photograph from March 2015.
Hasselblad 500 C/M / 80mm Planar / Ilford FP4+ / Kodak D76 1+1 / film scan via Epson V700 and Silverfast, preparation in Adobe Creative Suite
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Winter transforms volcanic basalt into a frozen cathedral, where delicate icicles and layers of snow soften the geometric symmetry of the rock columns. The contrast between the dark volcanic stone and the pristine white ice reveals nature’s remarkable ability to sculpt ever-changing landscapes.
Present day Idaho Falls drops over a manmade dam and black basalt (lava rock) on the Snake River in Bonneville County, Idaho.
In 1863 when Idaho Territory was established, there were a few cattlemen and miners in the area around present day Idaho falls.The Montana trail connected the mining camps in Montana with the settlements and railroad in Utah through the eastern Idaho. Ferries were established to get freight across the Snake River. In 1865 Matt Taylor, a freighter, built a log toll bridge across a narrows composed of black basalt in present day Idaho Falls. In the narrows there was a rapids with small drops that would later become known as Idaho Falls. A town known as Taylors Crossing grew up around the bridge. The town changed its named to Eagle Rock in 1889 as the railroad line approached the city. Pioneers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints came to the area, built irrigation systems, and established farms. According to local accounts the towns name was changed again in 1891 to Idaho Falls in order to attract farmers who were wary of both eagles and rocks. A dam was built just above the rapids in the narrows in 1906 for irrigation and power generation. The character of the falls was forever changed with water falling over the dam and the rocks that used to be the banks of the river. In 1976, the Teton Dam, some 45 miles upstream on a tributary to the Snake, failed. This resulted in a huge surge of water that inundated downtown Idaho Falls with 2 feet of water and damaged the dam. In 1982, new power stations were constructed and the dam was rebuilt.
This photo shows a small segment of the falls below the manmade dam.
There is a fantastic art gallery to be found along the walls of the local coulees, with each square yard a fascinating variation on a theme.
During the 1974 eruption of Keanakāko‘i on the east Rim of Kilauea's summit caldera, a fissure opened east of the forested Lua Manu Crater. The lava from the fissure flowed across the Chain of Craters Road near Lua Manu Crater in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.
Early blooming buttercups, Bear Creek Canyon Trailhead, Yakima County, Washington.
Here is more information: Basalt buttercup (Ranunculus basalticus) is a recently identified, rare perennial wildflower native to the eastern Cascade slopes in Washington (Klickitat, Yakima, and Kittitas counties). It thrives on steep, rocky basalt slopes, in sagebrush steppe, and open Garry oak forests, blooming in early spring with large, yellow flowers.
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Spent a 5 day weekend circlng the various coulee formations related to the Ice Age Floods which exposed the basalt formations in their many twisted formations, and then 'painted' by lichens to highlight the sun and shade.
Cliffs at the mountain Reynisfjall, where it meets the sea, are made up of columnar basalt. These cliffs line the edge of the balck sand beach, Reynisfjara;, near the village of Vík í Mýrdal in southern Iceland.
Towering Basalt Columns at Reynisfjara, South Iceland. My late Aunt always said this photo reminded her of NYC's skyscrapers.
Sulla spiaggia nera di Reynisfjara, vicino al villaggio di Vík í Mýrdal, la scogliera rivela uno degli esempi più affascinanti di colonne basaltiche. Migliaia di anni fa, una colata di lava si raffreddò lentamente: contraendosi, la roccia si fratturò in modo naturale formando prismi quasi perfettamente esagonali. Questo mosaico geometrico non è opera dell’uomo, ma della fisica del raffreddamento del basalto — un equilibrio spontaneo tra calore, tensione e materia che il tempo ha scolpito davanti all’Atlantico.
Adesso la spiaggia è quasi completamente assente, a causa delle mareggiate eccezionali di qualche settimana fa
Buona giornata
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Columnar basalt is a really cool thing. I was watching the Central Washington Univ productions of Nick on the Rocks (geology videos of Washington state that are long enough to be educational but short enough not to tax short attention spans) and learned some new things about columnar basalts. It cools from the top to the bottom, and shrinks and fractures. The really fractured stuff at the top usually gets eroded or swept away, so what you see is the middle portion of these formations.
This photo was taken from a pullout maybe less than 1/4 mile from the US 26 turnoff onto OR 19. These basalts are called the Picture Gorge Basalts. Like the Picture Gorge Ignimbrite (tuff and other volcanic mishmash), these basalts make nice marker beds for geologists.
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My wife loves volcanic rocks, basalt columns in particular hence why we were here. I do like the monotone colours in this shot and following the paths that each line of water makes down the hexagon shaped rocks to the steam below.
Even if Basalt Delta, at first glances, seems rather safe, once you fell in a 5 deep block hole of lava, you reconsider it.
A microscale diorama of a Minecraft Basalt Delta Biome
A few indications on what represent what:
- The blocks in reddish brown represent the ancien debris (Would have been better in dark brown but the 1x1 tile in that color are crazy expensive)
- The blocks in dark bluish gray represent the Basalt
- The blocks in black represent the Blackstone
- The blocks in orange represent the magma blocks
- The blocks in trans-orange represent the lava.
Please note that each full block are accurate and as I did the back - because it'll be displayed in a con - it was more painful.
Hope you like it :)
Mythische Basaltsäulen
• Der Giant’s Causeway ist vor ungefähr 60 Millionen Jahre nach einem Vulkanausbruch während des Abkühlungsprozesses von Lava entstanden. Er gehört zum UNESCO Weltkulturerbe.
• The Giant's Causeway originated about 60 million years ago after a volcanic eruption during the lava cooling process. He is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.