With a permanent livejournal account, and a twitter account, a whole slew of domain names of my own, and the technical savvy to pound out a blogging system from scratch in a couple of minutes, do I really need another one of these?

 

Apparently so.

29th January 2012

Photoset reblogged from Fuck Yeah Volcanoes with 1,742 notes

geologise:

Extreme Geology: The Giant’s Causeway, Ireland and Staffa, Scotland
→ Credit for photos: one, two, and three.

These amazing basalt columns cane be found on Staffa, Scotland, and Giant’s Causeway in Nothern Ireland. These geological structures formed from volcanic activity over 50 mya where the slow cooling of basalt creates the hexagonal columns you see today. The process which creates such stunning hexagonal columns is called “columnar jointing”; a process where the basalt rapidly cools from the outside towards the centre, causing it to contract and form these structures.

Source: geologise

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    OH HEY! I’ve been here. I was hanging out in Belfast waiting for my flight to Amsterdam and I had a day to kill. I made...
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    I’ve been there! It’s as impressive, weird and beautiful as it looks :D.
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    I’ve always found these structures really fascinating. :o
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    How do I keep forgetting that this place exists?
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    I used to live near(ish) to the Giant’s Causeway. It’s absolutely amazing. My Mamma used to tell me the story of how the...
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