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Participants at a GIFT workshop (Credit: Jane Robb/EGU)

Geolocation Basalt Columns

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Basalt Columns

Categories
Petrology, Volcanics

Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain – England, Scotland, Wales

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Description

From Imaggeo.egu.eu: The picture shows the emerged cluster of bending balsalt colums on Staffa Island of the Inner Hebrides (Scotland). The Palaeogene basalts are the eastern continuation of the Giant’s Cause Way. http://imaggeo.egu.eu/view/1193/


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Geographic location

-6.3333 W, 56.4333 N