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Recreación del interior de una casa aborigen canaria, construida con piedras de basalto a modo de mampostería transformada en paredes que servían de lugar de refugio, el hogar donde observamos algunos utensilios de alfarería, molinos de piedra y alimentos habituales de su dieta.
Museo y Parque Arqueológico Cueva Pintada.
Gáldar.
Stone arch on the side of Mount Clemens overlooking the Nile river valley.
Taken with a Sony A5100, Rokinon 14mm 2.8 lens. 2 images stitched in Lightroom, processed in Lightroom and Photoshop CC.
Vik, Iceland.
The beach in Vic in southeastern Iceland is known for its black beach, basalt columns and the weird rock formation that sticks out of the sea called Reynisdrangar. The area is also known for its rainfall and strong winds. Indeed, Vic is the wettest place in Iceland.
The first day I was there I could not take photos because the wind was so strong that it easily could have toppled over my camera gear and me ;-) I returned to Vic a few days later and the conditions were drastically improved but there was still very cold wind and rain.
Tech Info:
Nikon D800E, AF-S 24-120mm f/4G ED VR2, Lee 0.6 GND filter.
Post-processed in Lr 5.7 and Ps CS6.
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.
At Reynishverfi Beach, near Vik, Iceland. Iceland's volcanic history has resulted in many instances of these columnar formations.
, in the Valley of Fires - 125 square miles of lava flow from the Little Black Peak, a mere 5000 years ago.
On Sátan, quite different from nearby columnar basalt. Both probably part of the same intrusion.
Oops, geodata lost in editing.
Circuito Truful-Truful
Parque Nacional Conguillio
IX Region de La Araucania
Chile
After a night of heavy rain and hail, i was glad that weather conditions improved a little the next day. That allowed us to go out and make some photos.
We went east in the first place, that was in order to shot in the green lagoon, place that was closer to the lodge, but because of the rain and cold in that area we had to return to the entrance of the park where things were not so bad.
I really enjoyed the trail surrounded by forests, waterfalls and volcanic remains over the black basaltic sand. As a man of geology, scenes like these make me feel in my field. Love the fact that landscape photography and geology go so well together.
Have a great week ahead my friends.
Standing tall above the Atlantic Ocean, this lighthouse rises like a sentinel over a fortress of volcanic columns. The orderly basalt formations, sculpted by ancient lava flows and cooled into perfect hexagonal pillars, curve gently outward as if unfurling toward the sea. Flecks of orange lichen cling to the black stone, evidence of life tenaciously gripping the hardened fire of the Earth. Amid this surreal geologic amphitheater, the stark white lighthouse becomes not just a navigational aid but a monument to the silent dialogues between man, stone, and sea.
Sopra l’Oceano Atlantico si erge questo faro, come una sentinella su una fortezza di colonne vulcaniche. Le formazioni di basalto, nate dal raffreddamento lento di antichi flussi lavici, si dispiegano con precisione geometrica verso l’acqua, come una corona di pietra plasmata dal tempo. Qua e là, licheni arancioni colonizzano la roccia nera, portando un tocco di vita su ciò che fu fuoco. In questo scenario quasi surreale, il faro non è solo guida per i naviganti, ma anche simbolo della silenziosa coesistenza tra uomo, natura e memoria geologica.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081216104325.htm Mistery Of Hexagonal Column Formation Solved.
blogs.agu.org/georneys/2012/11/18/geology-word-of-the-wee... Columnar Jointing
www.fromthegrapevine.com/nature/11-intriguing-basalt-form... Basalt Columns Around the World.
Version 2 of the original pic with updated versions of the Warlow and Helena avatars.
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Taken at: Black Basalt Beach
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Welcome to the Westerwald – welcome to the Stöffel Park!
Have you heard about the Stöffel Park? If not, then it‘s time you did! The once largest basalt quarrying district (140 hectares) in Germany‘s wooded Westerwald hills, a fossil bed of global importance, and the over 100-year-old preparation and works facilities, make a visit to the Stöffel Park more than worthwhile.
The Stöffel Park is located in the midst of the forested hills of Germany’s Westerwald region, between the villages of Enspel, Nistertal and Stockum-Püschen, and thus a little to the south of Bad Marienberg. Its name can be traced back to the Stöffel, a basalt dome that evolved in the course of some hundred years into the Westerwald’s largest contiguous basalt quarrying district. The “Stöffel Tertiary and Industrial Encounter Park” documents not only the history of basalt quarrying, extraction and preparation, but also makes visible what occurred 25 million years ago around the then existing “Stöffel-See” lake.
Lóndrangar Basalt Cliffs
Uniquely-formed remnants of ancient basalt volcanic dikes sticking out from the sea.
Londrangar and the hill Svalthufa are the remains of a crater, which has been eroded to its present form by the sea.
The farmers in the area never made or make hay on the hill, because it is said to belong to the elves living in the area.
Younger lava fields surround this old crater ruin. The higher pillar (75m) was first climbed in 1735 and the lower (61 m) in 1938.
Below the hill you may find Thufubjarg cliff where according to a folktale the poet Kolbeinn Joklaskald had an encounter with the Devil.
On these cliffs, puffins and fulmars have their nests.
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