#Columnar basalt

[geologyin-blog]

The Columnar Basalt in Meshgin-shahr, northwest Iran, is a breathtaking sight. The rock formations are like nothing I've ever seen before. Photo by Afrab Group (Mehdi Javid)/IG

[zegalba]

Columnar Basalt

[sushi11]

Stuðlagil Canyon, Iceland 🇮🇸 © marcelsiebert

[avanii]

A second Beast of Basalt, taking inspiration from columnar basalt like before, but also the phenomenon of flood basalt. The tail is composed of a'a lava, and makes that clinkery, glassy sound when it gets swung! I painted this with acrylic inks.

[kiweetree]

@kiweetree / ig zroe.zroe

[scrumpster]

my hungry ass could never see a columnar basalt

[azvolrien]

And finally for now, the world-famous Giant's Causeway, possibly the only place in Northern Ireland where they didn't film Game of Thrones. I assume they maybe thought it was just too iconic to use as a location.

Yeah, the tourist board probably wouldn't go for "The third-best columnar basalt formation I've visited!" as a slogan.

[bluebrightly]

FURTHER AFIELD: Iceland Rocks!

1. Extraordinary basalt features at Reynisfjara include this curtain-like structure. * For visitors, Iceland’s appeal is the magnificent scenery, most of which involves rock. Waterfalls tumble over rock, volcanoes break through it, geysers spring from it. Mountains, lava fields, geothermal processes, ice caves, glaciers and fjords all revolve around rocks. I hadn’t thought about the ubiquity…

[meticulousfragments]

I think someone at BioWare decided to take a geology class these lava caves are PRETTY

[inner-muse]

I love columnar basalt!!! It’s the coolest thing

2024: Stuðlagil ravine on the river Jökla. Lucky the drone was handy as we had come down on the west side and you can see bugger-all from the farm there. Best to approach on the eastern side, park at Stuðlafoss, and then walk the remaining 2km up to the canyon.

[amethyst-halo]

i have a fun world building idea w my sona going to different the kingdoms and talking geology in those places and it’ll take so long but i might do it anyway

[avanii]

The Beast of Basalt, another one of my volcanic creature designs. Based on columnar basalt (go look it up it's amazing!). Painted with ecoline inks. I have a bunch more geological monsters in the making, they're just so fun!

[sepdet]

one of the oldest tags on my blog is

#always reblog sexy columnar basalt

so i was excited to see the nautilus people geeking over some sexy columns with an excellent fish face

[sepdet]

ones like that illustrate the fact they're not only bizarre, they're the product of expertise

everyone who has a "you want fries with that?" degree or skill they don't use professionally

can just damn well have a passionate stance about sexy columnar basalt

or about some bumpkin from Licenum having the nerve to call himself Magnus (look I'm sorry Cleopatra's lil bro lopped your head off but you were just asking for mentula minuscula jokes in the back benches of the Senate house)

and I think that's beautiful

[groovy-rat-man]

Has anyone done a geologic survey of skyrim yet?

[amethyst-halo]

now i just wanna figure out worldbuilding stuff. fuck