There has been a wave of articles over the last few weeks out on the geoblogosphere on columnar jointing in lavas – with many, many great images of columns seen aroundthe world. I thought I’d jump in ...

Designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1986, the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland is a geometrical and geological marvel. With 40,000 interlocking basalt columns marching from the cliffs into ...

Visitors to the coast of Northern Ireland have always marveled at the so-called Giant’s Causeway — a field of some 40,000 interlocking basalt columns arranged in a tidy hexagonal pattern. German ...

The river shines a beautiful blue-green colour during summer and slowly changes to a grey-brown during winter when the snow melts into the glacial river ...

In ancient times, strange rock formations that display a regular pattern of almost hexagonal sections were sometimes explained as the work of a supernatural stonecutter - maybe even the devil himself ...