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 ...
On the north coast of Northern Ireland sits an otherworldly rock formation known as the Giant’s Causeway. There, thousands of hexagonal stone columns of various heights rise out of the North Atlantic ...
Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland features around 40,000 exposed polygonal columns of basalt in perfect horizontal sections. Chris Hill/Photodisc via Getty Images The reason patterns often appear ...
This collection of basalt columns was recorded in a canyon north of Molokai, at a depth of just over a mile, according to Nautilus Live Ocean Exploration Trust. YouTube video screengrab Newly recorded ...
Climbing has been baned on the famous basalt columns in Armenia including Arpa Gorge and Garni Gorge. Up until recently one used to climb on some truly unique rock in Armenia, up hexagonal basalt ...
Sometimes natural processes can create surprisingly complex and regular patterns, fooling some into thinking they discovered the artifacts of a lost civilization. One striking example of such ...
Believers in sacred geometry ascribe power and significance to naturally occurring shapes. They see them as evidence of organization — likely by a higher power. Within this small group, there is a ...