Huge, dark pillars of stone rise from the dirt. They are perfectly hexagonal. They stand shoulder-to-shoulder like a ...

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 ...

The excitement is big down in West Basalt (is there really a coterminous line between the town’s “east” and “west” portions, or are the politicians just lazy?), now that a Whole Foods store has ...

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 ...

Our friends living at the confluence of the Roaring Fork and Frying Pan rivers are facing one of those “What kind of community do we want to be?” moments. The stakes feel high because they are, and ...

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 ...

Great things are happening up in Basalt. And it’s all thanks to the people who live there. One of those things is the recent push-back against a town plan to use $5 million in sales tax revenues to ...

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 ...

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