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 ...

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 ...

For centuries people have been fascinated by enormous columnar rock formations like the Devil's Postpile in California. The Celts, for example, were convinced that Giant's Causeway, in Northern ...

The Giant's Causeway, the 173 acres of hexagonal basalt columns that hug the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland, has long been a source of wonder and mystery. How could nature have formed such perfect ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...