Prismatic disjunction - Porto Santo Island, Portugal
This photo it was taken during a field trip correlated with the Porto Santo bentonites. A prismatic disjunction (or disjunction columnar or columnar gasket) is a type of geological event which happens during the cooling of the wash process.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Cristiana Costa (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
2.6 MB
Width
3264 px
Height
2448 px
Aspect
4:3
Brand
Alcatel
Model
One pop touch 7
Exposure
4 mm f/2.6 1/834 s ISO 80
Taken
7 October 2015
Tint
Brilliant blue
Submitted
22 February 2016
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