(reminds me of the Giant's Causeway)
This spectacular columnar joint pattern in lava exposed in Alaska's Suemez Island formed when the lava flowed next to a glacier about 700,000 years ago. CREDIT: Susan Karl, U.S. Geological Survey
1 posted on
06/08/2013 10:58:58 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
6 posted on
06/08/2013 11:49:23 AM PDT by
JimSEA
To: SunkenCiv
that's so COOL.. :-D
8 posted on
06/08/2013 12:29:51 PM PDT by
skinkinthegrass
(who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
To: SunkenCiv
"The maar is about 13,800 years old, Baichtal said." That's about the same time a comet hit, eh?
9 posted on
06/08/2013 1:46:14 PM PDT by
blam
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To: SunkenCiv
Basalt flows is neat stuff. Devil’s Postpile in California has similar type flows.
12 posted on
06/08/2013 4:42:21 PM PDT by
csvset
To: SunkenCiv
How beautiful! I’d love to see it in person.
15 posted on
06/09/2013 12:41:12 PM PDT by
Bigg Red
(Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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