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Columnar Basalt

Columnar Basalt

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Looking up at a towering cliff of grey basalt columns: long straight six-sided columns running down the wall and broken ends forming a honeycomb pattern, against a pale blue sky. — The Symphony of Stones Hossein Barkhordari

Cliff of grey hexagonal basalt columns, curved and fanning in different directions, rising above a black beach where a small person stands at the base for scale. — Basalt colums at Reynisfjara Sarah Weick

Fur seal sitting upright on a dark rock among heaps of brown kelp, with white breaking waves, dark rocks and flying seabirds behind under a grey sky. — Antarctic Fur Seal and columnar basalt Etienne Pauthenet

Thin waterfall dropping over a dark cliff of hanging basalt columns into a pool, with green plants and mossy boulders at the base. — Svartifoss waterfall, Iceland Chiara Arrighi

Rock face made of many-sided grey basalt columns seen end-on, patched with green lichen, a tree growing out of a crack beside it under a blue sky. — In to the heart of the volcano David Tanner

Cliff of tall grey basalt columns, many hexagonal, standing side by side, with broken column ends forming steps in the foreground and a misty green meadow and pond to one side. — Panská skála Peter Huber

Close-up of the tops of tightly packed basalt columns, mostly hexagonal, dark grey with patches of yellow lichen, some with shallow bowl-shaped hollows, stretching away like stepping stones. — Giants Causeway Bernhard Aichner

Tops of many closely packed basalt columns seen from above, mostly five- and six-sided, grey and spotted with yellow lichen and green cushions of moss. — Basalt heads David Tanner

Island cliff of dark basalt columns, upright above and fanning into a cone-like pile below, seen from the sea, with a small red life-ring for scale. — Eastern Side of Staffa David Tanner

Rounded rock surface made of the flat polished tops of grey basalt columns fitting together like hexagonal paving tiles, with faint scratches, beside pine trees. — Fire and Ice Jeff Munroe

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