Not all those who wander are lost

2012/01/28
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Extreme Geology: The Giant’s Causeway, Ireland and Staffa, Scotland
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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.

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2011/12/14
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Off the old volcano , mountains, nature, volcanoes uploaded by sms

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2011/12/03
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Virunga Volcanoes

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Africa’s Green and Fiery Heart

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2011/11/18
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lloydkbarnes: via ngm.nationalgeographic.com awesome volcano photo in Hawaii by Alain Barbezat.

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lloydkbarnes: via ngm.nationalgeographic.com awesome volcano photo in Hawaii by Alain Barbezat.

2011/11/14
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Seven wonders of the natural world

Photograph: Alberto Incrocci

With a temperament similar to that of Italy’s soon-to-be-former PM Silvio Berlusconi, Mount Vesuvius is a volcano east of Naples. It is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years, but is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. It has erupted many times since and is today regarded as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. Likely to be the only European wonder in the top seven

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