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St Michael's Mount is a small tidal island in Mount's Bay, Cornwall. The island is linked to the town of Marazion by a man-made causeway of granite setts, passable between mid-tide and low water. The population of this parish in 2011 was 35.
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The Gulf of Mexico surf crashes onto granite blocks as the sun rises on the Galveston Island beach, Texas.
Overshadowed by her marginally higher neighbour, Bidean Nam Bian, to which she is connected by means of a col just a few meters too high to give her Munro status, Stob Coire nan Lochan is most often just used as a stopping point with a nice view for Munro baggers trying to bag Bidean and Sgreamhach in a wee round.
Too bad, in my opinion, as this mountain, still one of the tallest in Argyll, offers lots of interesting climbing on it's north face, and short walk-in times from the main road. The crags start at around 830-850 meters, and go right up to the pyramid-shaped summit.
Rock around here is mainly rhyolithic/andesite lava, with a granite core because this used to be the centre of the Glen Coe caldera. Because the centre of this ancient supervolcano (think Yellowstone) lies right around the Three Sisters, anyone interested in geology as well as climbing is going to have the time of their life here. The summit of Stob Coire nan Lochan consists almost entirely out of rare Andesite pillars, and the bottom of the coire itself cuts into the granite of the old magmachamber.
Granite erosion-control blocks along the Galveston, Texas, Seawall are pounded by the Gulf of Mexico surf on a summer morning.
Stormgade (Storm Street) is a street in central Copenhagen. Its most prominent feature is the colonnade with 38 columns in Bornholmian granite which runs along the full length of the building of the National Museum of Denmark.
A closer look at just one of the huge granite tors that mark the summit of Beinn Mheadhoin. After being battered by many Scottish winters the weatherd rock looks like layer upon layer.
Beinn Mheadhoin (pronounced Bane Vee-arrn) meaning 'The Middle Hill' stands at 1182 meters (3878 feet) and is my 14th Munro. The summit plateau is strewn with some spectacular granite rocky tors and lies at the remote heart of the Cairngorms. The cycle in up Glen Derry was 6.7 miles, with a further 3.7 hike to reach the summit. With the return, the days sees me covering 21 miles Bike & Hike.
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In the old part of Porto along the river (here the Rua da Reboleira in Ribeira) the frame of the houses is made from solid granite. Some of the buildings, such as that with the Gothic arches, go back to the 14th century. A number of Porto's buildings were damaged in the massive 18th century earthquake. Not these.
A beautiful set of falls and very convenient to shoot. My GPS said we found it and I didn't see a thing. So, I turned into a gas station to ask directions. The lady said- it's right here on the left- you can park at the end of our lot. She was right about 25 yards to a lookout!
A side view of the 17th century gatehouse to the Lanhydrock estate in Cornwall. Magmatic intrusion materials, such as granite, form the geological skeleton of the Cornish topography. Since prehistoric times, granite has been used whenever the mark of permanence was required: we were here!
A granite jetty or, more-properly, groyne, reaches into the Gulf of Mexico from the Galveston Island, Texas, beach.
From our walk last Sunday up to Easdon Tor. That granite stack is called Figgie Daniel (see previous upload: flic.kr/p/2jGrrxr ).
Completed in January 1945 using Rubislaw (Aberdeen) granite. Architect Leo Durnin, with “Spirit of the Wind” figure designed by Thomas Huxley-Jones.
Silver Mines Recreational Area
State Highway D
Madison County Missouri
Photo taken on October 3, 2020
Granite is great. It’s hard, weathers through countless winters of freezing and thawing. It does break down, eventually but slowly. Lines laying across the rocky surface tells us when the next break will occur. The individual shapes and sizes of the rocks are like fluffy clouds, they remind us of something, maybe a snake sneaking through the water, a seal sunning on the beach in the cold north. One looks like it would make a perfect seat. I could sit here watch the dragonflies fizz by, the minnows erratic meandering the the pools of water the myriad of colors in the trees that’s changing into fall.
These granite hillocks look as if someone has patiently arranged them.The momuments in Hampi ,the ruined capital of the ancient Kingdom of Vijayanagar in the state of Karnataka and a World Heritage Site, are made from granite sourced from these hillocks.
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This colossal granite dome faces Walker Arm on Sam Ford Fjord, northern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.