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Vineyards, olive groves, cypress trees, and hills make up the breath-taking views over the Villa Belvedere with the first sun rays on a summer day. It offers such a quintessential Tuscan landscape in the village of San Quirico d’Orcia in the province of Siena, Italy.
Fingal Head boasts some of the most spectacular examples of columnar jointing to be found in the whole of NSW. The name "Fingal Head" is actually derived from a fabled Scottish hero who was involved in the folk story surrounding the creation of Fingal Cave in Scotland and the Giant's Causeway in Ireland. The local indigenous Goodjingburra clan's name for Fingal Head is Booninybah - Home of the Giant Echidna: "Booniny" means Giant Echidna. The spectacular columns of Fingal Head resemble the spines of an echidna, and so the Goodjingburra believe that the spirit of the echidna inhabits the headland.
Geology
The columnar basalt lava flow at Fingal Head extends underwater to Cook Island (named after Lieutenant James Cook who explored the east coast of Australia in 1770). The lava is thought to have come from the prehistoric Tweed Volcano and is known as "Lismore Basalt"; predominantly tholeiitic with occasional alkaline types. This unit is stratigraphically equivalent to the Beechmount Basalt in Queensland.
The jointing, clearly evident at Fingal Head is caused by contraction: as lava cools from the outside toward the centre, shrinkage cracks develop, usually forming hexagonal patterns (the shape of the columns is attributed to tensional stress). These columns are vertical because the lava cools from top to bottom when the flow of lava is horizontal.As always, thanks for any comments, views or favorites, they are much appreciated!
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A view of Watlington from the bottom of Watlington Hill. On the left of the photo, the oilseed rape fields are starting to appear.
Mountains with a dusting of snow give this house on the Snæfellsnes peninsula, Iceland a wonderful view.
Photo taken in Arnarstapi, Iceland.
We switched campsites for the last two nights at Oliver Lee Memorial State Park and were very happy we did. The site had incredible views!
A view across the Amalfi Coast as seen from Atrani.
Atrani was founded by the ancient Roman aristocracy and became the residence of the most wealthy and powerful families of the Republic of Amalfi.
Today Atrani maintains its distinct fishing town atmosphere. The main entrance to the town starts from the beach, and from there, the traditional houses climb up the steep mountain valley, intertwined with gardens and lemon terraces. Atrani has little traffic and noise, even in summer, because it only opens to the beach and the sea.
Tornado warned storm over southeast Aurora. Taken from an open space park in the Stapleton neighborhood. A rainbow is just to the right of the rain shaft. The rainbow kept appearing throught the life cycle of the storm. It's very unusual to have an isolated storm like this.
View of the Chestnut Street Bridge, with the 30th Street Post Office (now leased to the IRS), 30th Street Station and the blue Cira Center rising up behind them.
Mexican Gold Poppies and Coulter's Lupine in bloom on a Sonoran Desert hillside - Bartlett Lake Recreation Area, Tonto National Forest, Arizona
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This is the view into the eastern side of the "Halde Norddeutschland". There are still some few fields on the ground, but on the horizon you already can see the chimneys of the industrial sites of the Ruhr Area.
The little hill in the middle is the "Halde Rheinpreußen", which I visited earlier that year.
Have a great day everyone and thank you very much for 250,000+ views.
Ashibetsu, Hokkaido.
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I've always like the view you get of the reservoir from this point and it's a good place to get your breath back after the climb up there. I'm sure those hills are getting bigger.
Below is one including Poppy who was in fine form posing on the top of every rock. Her energy amazes me. She would have done the walk that took me 4 hours in about 10-15mins I reckon.