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Otherwise known as Moses Coulee thought to be an even earlier Ice Age flood era that eroded the Basalt Formations of the Grande Ronde Lava Flow era millions of years ago.
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.
Fingal Heads, NSW, Australia
Not the best time of day for photography but such cool geology!
That's the thing with travel photography - you can't always pick what time you will be at a place, especially with a toddler in tow :)
Praia do Castelejo, Algarve
Portugal 2016
Contax G2, Biogon 2,8/28 mm
Fuji Acros 100 mit Rodinal
Easylith auf Fomatone 132
1+20, +3,5 stops
2 min Selen MT1
Otherwise known as Moses Coulee thought to be an even earlier Ice Age flood era that eroded the Basalt Formations of the Grande Ronde Lava Flow era millions of years ago.
Dramatic outcrops of basalt, a black sand/cobble beach, and powerful waves make for a dangerous combination at Reynisfjara Beach in southern Iceland. Tourists routinely tempt fate (and occasionally die) at this spectacular site.
HD PENTAX-D FA 24-70mm f2.8
Basalt with holes or vesicules making up to 50% of the rock is called vesicular basalt. (When the vesicles are over half the volume of a specimen, it is called scoria.) These textures forms when dissolved gases come out of solution and form bubbles as the magma decompresses at the surface. Some gas escapes yet other gas bubbles get trapped in the lava as it quickly hardens. The holes are left by the traped gases. Often there are more bubbles toward the top of the flow similar to foam on root beer. This sample was photographed in a road cut near the current end of the Chain of Craters Road.
Water unthreads itself into white lace, spilling in tiers over dark basalt and moss, the forest leaning in with fern and root to listen; the pool below gathers the cool breath of the fall, ink-blue and steady, while mist writes a fine halo in the green shade Patagonia humming its old, clear song of stone and rain.
This large basalt rock was carved by ancient peoples to map the area of the upper Snake River, possibly as long as 12,000 years ago.
This image showcases the stunning basalt columns found in Iceland. These natural rock formations are created by the cooling and contraction of lava, resulting in hexagonal pillars. The geometric patterns and the sheer scale of these columns make them a fascinating subject for landscape photography.
Traduzione in italiano: Questa immagine mostra le splendide colonne di basalto che si trovano in Islanda. Queste formazioni rocciose naturali sono create dal raffreddamento e dalla contrazione della lava, risultando in pilastri esagonali. I motivi geometrici e la scala di queste colonne le rendono un soggetto affascinante per la fotografia paesaggistica.
This is the famous Svartifoss waterfall in Skaftafell National Park. Its not very high or powerful but the surroundings make it unique. The forest and large basalt columns are simply amazing.
These basalt columns form when the lava that made this rock layer slowly cooled down over a long period.
This was on my second day of shooting in Skaftafell. When I came home Sunday evening, to my horror I saw that somehow two hairs from a horse had gotten into my camera and in front of the sensor. Almost every image from the whole day had two large black streaks across them. I tried to edit them out, but the can be seen on top of the blue sky. What I disappointment.
Taken with my Canon 10-22mm, an awsome lense for getting these kinda scenes.
From a recent climbing excursion in Vantage, WA. Spring 2019.
If you look closely, you can see the climbing holds.
#Climbing #SportClimbing #WallsAreMeantForClimbing #DesertArt #Basalt #SlotCanyon
Various colourful algal 'biofilms' decorating the grey basaltic columns within Alcantara Gorge, Sicily. Best viewed in 'L' large view mode.
When on a road trip in Iceland, I came across the infamous black sand beach in Vik. These beautiful structures are called basalt columns, created from cooling lava.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mourning_Wheatear
The Mourning Wheatear (Oenanthe lugens) is a bird, one of 14 species of wheatear found in the Palearctic region. It is a small passerine in a group formerly classed as members of the Thrush family Turdidae, but now more generally considered to be part of the Old World Flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
The Mourning Wheatear was first described by Lichenstein in 1823. It is an elegant and strikingly beautiful bird found in semi-desert areas in North Africa and the Middle East. It is sexually dimorphic with the females sporting more subtle plumage.
An intriguing dark morph of the Mourning Wheatear (the so-called Basalt Wheatear) occurs in the basalt desert of NE Jordan.
The north African subspecies halophila, considered by some to be a separate species, Western Mourning Wheatear, occurs from Morocco east to western Egypt. The Egyptian populations are discussed in Baha El Din and Baha El Din (2000).[1] These birds differ from typical halophila in exhibiting less sexual dimorphism, and displaying a prominent white wingbar, and thus are closer to the nominate race.
Panov (Wheatears of Palearctic, 2005) discusses the latest taxonomy for the Mourning Wheatear superspecies. The Mourning Wheatear is split from Schalow's Wheatear (Oenanthe lugubris), which is the species found south of the Sahara.
It has been recorded in the following countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
...off the Ardtun headland, Ross of Mull, Mull.
As Canada and Scotland parted company during the Tertiary Period, volcanos spewed out sheets of lava that solidied as pillars of polygonal section. Had I realised how hazardous the clambering was to get to it I would never have attempted to try....
I was there to find some fossilised leaf mound in mudstone between strata of lava, showing that at some time while the volcano was active, there was a lake boardered by deciduous (oak) woodland. I found some but nothing indicated the structure of a leaf. There were little water rolled pebbles in the mudstone too. It was worth the long trudge over boggy land in the rain, lapwings and curlews overhead. Vaguely interested cows.
Dverghamrar (Dwarf Rocks), just east of Foss, are peculiar and beautiful formations of columnar basalt. On top of the columns there is cube-jointed basalt. The landscape is thought to have been moulded at the end of the Ice Age. The sea level was higher at that time and it is believed that the waves caused the peculiar look of the rocks. Dverghamrar are a protected natural monument. Columnar basalt is formed when lava flow gets cooled and contraction forces build up. Cracks then form horizontally and the extensive fracture network that develops results in the six sided formation of the columns.
The sea was wild and fierce on this bitterly cold morning as the basalt columns of the Giant's Causeway provided a stairs for the waterfalls of ocean.
I'm not sure if I want to make this a panorama, leaving out the rocks in the foreground.Your views would be welcome. Thanks!
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Sunset flow over the basalt rocks of Lighthouse beach in Bunbury, Western Australia.
Nikon D810 & Nikkor 16-35mm, NiSi 6 stop filter. PP in PS CC using Nik Software and luminosity masks.