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Columnar jointed basaltic rock can be seen on a cliff on the south side of Village of Fajāzinha on Flores Island In the Azores.
Etretat, Normandie, France.
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The Chalk Cliffs are an iconic historic landmark in Colorado's southern Sawatch Range. The cliffs are at the entrance to Chalk Creek Canyon (left) on the southeast flank of Mount Princeton. These striking white cliffs are made not of chalk but of kaolinite, a soft rock produced by hot springs percolating through cracks in the rock.
The cliff was created 500,000 years ago when basalt lava cooled forming columnar joints. Just another reminder that when visiting Yellowstone, you are walking in a volcano's caldera.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA
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The Cliffs of Moher are located at the southwestern edge of the Burren region in County Clare and is the top visited tourist site in Ireland, receiving almost one million visitors a year. It rises 120 meters above the Atlantic Ocean at Hag's Head, and reach their maximum height of 214 meters just north of O'Brien's Tower, eight kilometers to the north.
There are an estimated 30,000 birds living on the cliffs, representing more than 20 species. These include Atlantic puffins, which live in large colonies at isolated parts of the cliffs and razorbills, fact that makes the site an Important Bird Area.
We were hoping for a colourful sunset but while this didn't happen, the beautiful sea cliffs on Achill Island made for great photographs anyway.