HYDERABAD: Miniature columnar Basalt rocks, said to be dated back to 65 million years, were found in the Ginnedhari forest range in Adilabad district. Explorers from the Public Research Institute of ...

Nature rarely does straight lines. If you look at a forest, a rock, or a coastline, you see all sorts of shapes and chaos. But visit the coast of Northern Ireland or the high deserts of Oregon, and ...

Rare basalt columns, believed to be 6.5 crore years old, were discovered near Pochera waterfalls in Adilabad district. Columnar basalts are geological structures formed due to lava flow from volcanoes ...

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 ...

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 ...

HYDERABAD: Geology and archaeology enthusiasts have found ‘columnar basalts’ — natural sculpture-like rock formations formed th-rough the heating and cooling of melted volcanic lava containing basalt ...

Mumbai's Gilbert Hill, a 200-foot basalt column formed 66 million years ago from volcanic eruptions, stands as a rare geological monument. Compared to Devil's Tower and Devil's Postpile in the USA, it ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

The geology of Washington state varies wildly from region to region, belying the great medley of events -- ancient and more recent, catastrophic and systematic-- that formed it. And in no part of the ...