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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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One of the many delights of beach walking is seeing something new revealed each time by the working of the wind, sea and tides.
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.
Cooling lava formed these basalt columns at the Giant's Causeway on the north coast of Northern Ireland.
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.
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Discovered by accident, plenty of fluorescent coated rocks in our backyard, off to night-time rock hounding!
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!
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.
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)!
Found the most amazing basalt formation - couldn't resist a classic 'person in front of a big scene' style shot...
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.
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
Grundmauern aus Bruchbasalt und die Aufbauen aus Holzfachwerk mit Lehmausfachung; das waren die traditionellen Baustoffe in der Region Vogelsberg.
This was the original colour of this shot, taken at 3am or some otherworldy hour while the surpressing fog and rain covered us. Bleary eyed, I dodged the odd sheep and on the trail to this rocky outcrop. The yellow light the only difference in an otherwise dark and misty world.
There's a lot of geologic history to this area, and since so many of my valued Flickr friends are interested in geology and rocks, I uploaded some of the informative displays at Palouse Falls.
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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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.
Dramatic stormy weather, rainfall, and large waves push through the rocky gully of basalt columns and wet glistening boulders on the coast of Australia
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.