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Basaltic flow - Alcantara Gorges
by Valeria Belloni, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Alcantara Gorges, Sicily, Italy.
The Alcantara Gorges are a unique and unusual canyon with prismatic-shaped walls generated by the rapid cooling of basaltic lava flows from the Etna eruptions.
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- Europe (3769)
- Southern Europe (1624)
- Italy (408)
- Exact location (15.1742 E, 37.8789 N)
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4000 × 6000 px;
image/jpeg; 15.5 MB
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Canon EOS 2000D
Software: Digital Photo Professional
Taken on 28
June
2023
Submitted on 28 March 2024
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Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)
Credit
Valeria Belloni (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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