HYDERABAD: Geological enthusiasts have identified ‘columnar basalt’ formations (naturally formed pillars of stone) on a small hillock inside the reserve forest area of Borilalguda village in Kerameri ...

SCIENTISTS believe that the mystery of how the Giant’s Causeway was formed has finally been solved. While legend suggests the mythical giant, Fionn Mac Cumhaill may have built the towers of basalt as ...

VietNamNet Bridge – In a journey to Phu Yen a few years ago, I missed a chance to visit Da Dia basalt columns, one of the famous tourist attractions in the central coast province. So I decided to make ...

St. Mary’s Islands, a set of four small islands off the coast of Malpe in Udupi, Karnataka, is where you will find a series of interlocking basalt columns. Millions of years ago, these formations were ...

On the banks of the Columbia River, tall columns of rock poke out from the cliffs. “So you see all of these black rocks that are on either side of us, on either side of the river? Those are basalts.

Rising 200 feet above Andheri, the 65-million-year-old Gilbert Hill is one of the rarest volcanic rock formations on Earth.

But basalt has one virtue that other geologic formations lack. In the laboratory, it can transform CO2 into calcium carbonate – the equivalent of seashells or limestone – in a matter of weeks or ...

Igneous rocks close igneous rockIgneous rocks are those which have been formed by the cooling and solidification of molten rock (magma) from underneath the earth’s crust. are formed by magma from the ...