Isle of Staffa from the Sea
by David Tanner, Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG), Hannover, Germany
Southern view of the island of Staffa from the sea, showing the extremely regular columnar basalts at the base. The extrusive volcanism is early Tertiary in age.
Taken on 25
March
2007
Submitted on 09 July 2014
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- Europe (3326)
- Northern Europe (780)
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (161)
- Exact location (-6.3446 W, 56.4304 N)
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basalt, scotland, column, staffa, tertiary
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Credit: David Tanner (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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