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Stuðlagil Canyon can be found in East Iceland in the Glacier Valley called Jökuldalur. With the largest number of basalt rock columns in Iceland and a stunning blue glacier river to contrast, Stuðlagil is one of Iceland's hidden gems.
Grundmauern aus Bruchbasalt und die Aufbauen aus Holzfachwerk mit Lehmausfachung; das waren die traditionellen Baustoffe in der Region Vogelsberg.
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.
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Nikon D800E, AF-S 24-120mm f/4G ED VR2, Lee 0.6 GND filter.
Post-processed in Lr 5.7 and Ps CS6.
Circuito Truful-Truful
Parque Nacional Conguillio
IX Region de La Araucania
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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.
The Fossil Falls is a unique geological feature, located in the Coso Range of California in the United States. Volcanic activity in the mountain range, along with meltwater from glaciers in the nearby Sierra Nevada, played a role in the creation of the falls. They are located near Little Lake, Inyo County, California, 1.0 mi (1.6 km) off US 395 (at a red cinder cone called "Red Hill") on Cinder Road
Shot in the former basalt quarry in Otzberg-Hering, Hessen, Germany, deep in the Odenwald hills.
Today's Odenwald offers a very pleasant scenery of rolling hills and verdant valleys, but it was not always like that. In the Devonian era, over 350 milion years go, this was part of a volcanic island arc where the ancient continent Laurussia collided with the Avalonia terrane, subducting the oceanic crust that had been separating the two, and piling up an enormous, partly volcanic, mountain range that may have rivaled the Andes in height, if not in extent. This was the Variscan orogeny.
But that is not when this basalt was deposited, Fast forward over 300 milion years and you're 20 million years before today, in the Miocene. The ancient Variscan mountains had been largely eroded away to a mere shadow of their former self. Laurussia had gone on to collide with other terranes, including Armorica, and finally the mighty Gondwana, forming a huge supercontinent called Pangaea, which existed throughout the carboniferous, the Permian, and then well into the Mesozoic era, when dinosaurs roamed. It started breaking up in the late Triassic and went on doing that throughout the Jurassic, spawning a host of smaller continents that would later arrange themselves to the layout we now have.
In the Cenozoic, the African plate moved northwards into Europe; this process is still ongoing. Among other things, this created a north-south rift through all of Europe, part of which is the Rhine graben. While the process stopped before a real rift could form (which would have led to Eastern and Western Europe parting ways) the thinning of the crust along the graben structure rekindled active volcanism in the region after hundreds of millions of years of quiescence.
The basalt you see the is cooled volcanic pipe of a volcano. The outcrop has a width of 20 metres and is 15 metres high, There must have been a lot more of it, but that eroded away long ago, and then humans removed more when they used this as a quarry. As basalt cools, it forms cracks and tall vertical, mostly hexagonal or sometimes pentagonal structures.
All igneous rocks come in two "flavours", volcanic (extrusive) or plutonic (intrusive). The two kinds are chemically equivalent, but much different in their look and characteristics, and usually have different names. Basalt's other type is caled gabbro. While basalt forms under low pressure and low ambient temperatures and cools quickly, it will be fine-grained (because crystals have little time to grow) and crumbly. Conversely, gabbro will solidify over up to millions of years at great depths, under high pressure and temperature, so it will be large-grained and hard.
Both are mafic rock, meaning that they are low in silica content but rich in magnesium and iron. You probably also know granite, which is a plutonic rock with high silica content, made up of quartz, feldspar and mica. The volcanic sibling of granite is rhyolite.
The more silica-rich a magma is, the more viscous and therefore dangerous it will be. Basaltic magma is rather liquid and will just flow out of the volcano, but silica-rich magma offers all the nasties: explosions, pyroclastic flows, volcanic bombs, ash clouds, you name it.
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This was taken along the North Umpqua River in Oregon. The area has a history of volcanism and sometimes the lava flow cools into these columnar formations.
I think Abiqua is one of the more impressive waterfalls in central Oregon (although I have only seen a dozen or so). The rust colored basalt columns are really a stunning frame to a good sized waterfall, both height and width. In addition, there is adventure to just get to Abiqua Falls. 10 miles on a gravel road, 2.5 miles off roading on rocks and then a half mile hike down to there river that requires a rope guide in the steeper spots followed by a quarter mile jumping rocks along the river. A great experience.
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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Basalt ist für gewöhnlich dunkelgrau bis schwarz. Da er vulkanisch entsteht, besteht er aufgrund der schnellen Abkühlung zum größten Teil aus einer feinkörnigen Grundmasse.
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Not far from Tiverton there is a path on the left that goes about a half mile back to the shore. There is the phenomenal Balancing Rock is approximately four feet wide and twenty feet tall. A wonderful quirk of nature, this immense basalt column stands alone after many like it have dropped into the sea and the earth.
History:
Roughly 200 million years ago Nova Scotia was located in the interior of the super-continent, Pangaea. Movements that began during the Triassic Period were so dramatic they eventually resulted in the break up of Pangaea into North and South America, Africa and the Atlantic Ocean. Today, when the earth's crust moves and shifts, we often witness changes of a similar magnitude caused by the devastating and destructive results of immense earthquakes and tsunamis.
Deep beneath the Earth's crust (the lithosphere: a solid array of plates) is a layer of heated rock known as the asthenosphere. It is heated by the radioactive decay of elements such as uranium, thorium and potassium. This heat causes the ocean floors to continually move, shifting and separating from the center in different directions.
Columnar Basalt
The crustal portions of oceanic plates primarily consist of basalt. As the continents shifted, lava forced to the surface cooled and formed into columnar basalt sea stacks. These columns are usually six-sided, but can feature as few as three or as many as twelve (or more) sides.
The best season to photograph these pinnacles is mid winter when the sun rises behind them. The best location to photograph them is on the coast line nearest to the pinnacles. It sounds like an easy recipe but getting to this location in winter is tricky to say the least. Only when the right time of year, the right timing of the tide, the right weather conditions the weeks before and the right weather on the day of shooting is it possible to shoot this. This happened last Saturday and I was able to get out there. Finally! I tried it multiple times in winter without success.
But care must be taken. It was only possible on low tide, we had a window of two hours to get there and out again. Usually the sandy access beach gets washed away in winter due to stormy weather but this time the right weather patterns returned some of it back.