List of places with columnar jointed volcanics

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Basalt columns seen on Porto Santo Island, Portugal

polygonal
columns and give the impression of having been artificially constructed.

Notable columnar jointed volcanics

Africa

Asia

Garni Gorge, Armenia
Curved columns of rhyolitic tuff at the Hong Kong High Island Reservoir
Interlocked basaltic columns at the top of Kavadia mountain at Dewas district in India.
Cape Stolbchatiy
, Kuril Islands, Russia

Armenia

China (mainland)

  • Heiyuhe Columnar Joints (黑鱼河柱状节理) [Xianrenqiao (仙人桥)], Longchuan River (龙川江) & Black Fish River, Tengchong

Hong Kong

  • Basalt Island area, Hong Kong; including High Island Reservoir area, Hong Kong; although the High Island Reservoir is not basalt but rhyolitic tuff, rich in potash feldspar and quartz phenocrysts.

India

In India, columnars are found in several places across the volcanic traps such as 6.5 crore or 65 million years ago (Mya) old

deccan traps in South India and 14.5 crore or 145 mya old Rajmahal Traps in Eastern India
.

Karnataka
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Telangana

Indonesia

Close up view of stones atop Gunung Padang
Panorama atop Gunung Padang

Iran

Japan

Malaysia

at Kg Balung Cocos, Tawau, Sabah
Basalt Columns exposed along a river in a remote place in Tawau, Malaysia
  • In Teck Guan Cocoa Village and in Giram River, Kampung Balung Cocos Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia.

Mongolia

Philippines

Russia

South Korea

Syria / Israel (disputed)

Meshushim River, with prominent hexagonal basalt columns

Taiwan

  • Tongpan Basalt (
    Penghu Islands
  • The
    Penghu County

Thailand

Turkey

Vertically jointed columnar basalt of Basalt Rocks Natural Monument in Turkey

Vietnam

Phú Yên Province, Vietnam

Europe

Rhön, North Bavaria
, Germany
Volcanic rock columns, Milos, Greece
Ponta da Ajuda, Azores, Portugal
Bucium
, Romania
Columnar jointing in the basalt of the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland
Fingal's Cave, Staffa Island, Scotland

Czech Republic

Faroe Islands

France

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Hungary

  • Badacsony
  • Bér
  • Szanda
  • Szilváskő
  • Hegyestű
  • Szent-György-hegy
  • Gulács
  • Haláp
  • Hajagos
  • Uzsa

Iceland

Italy

Portugal

Romania

Slovakia

  • Šomoška

Spain

Sweden

Ukraine

United Kingdom

North and Central America

Pain de sucre (sugar loaf) in les Saintes
, Guadeloupe
La Concepción, Aculco, México
Basalt columns in the Mascota River, Mexico
Basaltic Prisms of Santa María Regla in Huasca de Ocampo, Hidalgo
Devil's Postpile
in California
Devils Tower
, Wyoming

Canada

Costa Rica

  • Bajo Rodriguez, San Lorenzo de San Ramon

El Salvador

  • Cascada Los Tercios, Suchitoto
  • Concepción waterfall, Aculco

Greenland

  • Qeqertarsuaq, Disko Island[21]

Guadeloupe

Mexico

Panama

  • Los Ladrillos, Boquete

United States

Oceania

Cape Raoul, Tasmania
Blackhead, Dunedin, New Zealand

Australia

Federated States of Micronesia

New Zealand

South America

Beyond Earth

High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, Arizona State University
.

Several exposures of columnar jointing have been discovered on the planet

Mars by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, which is carried by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Notable among them are formations in the Marte Vallis.[37]

Uses

A view of Gunung Padang

A likely Hindu-origin ancient site at Gunung Padang in West Java, Indonesia was built by horizontally laying basalt columns to form terraces on the slope of a hill and creating open-roofed chambers by erecting vertical columns. A now-ruined thirteenth-century religious complex called Nan Madol was built using columnar basalt quarried from various locations on the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia.

Hexagonal basalt was used to build retaining walls by early settlers in some places around Dunedin in New Zealand.

Gallery

  • Engraving of a basalt formation; from: Alberto Fortis, Della valle vulcanico-marina di Roncà nel territorio veronese (1778)
    Engraving of a basalt formation; from: Alberto Fortis, Della valle vulcanico-marina di Roncà nel territorio veronese (1778)
  • Basalt rocks on the Hirtstein in the Ore Mountains
    Basalt rocks on the Hirtstein in the Ore Mountains
  • The Bühren Organ Pipes
    The Bühren Organ Pipes
  • Basalt columns of Porto Santo, Archipelago of Madeira
    Basalt columns of
    Madeira
  • Garni Gorge, Armenia
    Garni Gorge, Armenia

See also

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