Columnar jointed volcano
Hegyestű ("Pointed Needle") is the remnant of a volcanic conduit in Hungary in which the lava has fractured into columns during cooling and shrinking to create this spectacular set of columns.
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- Europe (3707)
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- Exact location (17.6475 E, 46.8894 N)
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3264 × 2448 px;
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Olympus µ820
Taken on 14
September
2009
Submitted on 5 March 2012
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Credit
György Hetényi (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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