Basalt, 11134


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Description

Heavy slab of columnar basaltic lava. Hexagonal jointing is due to contraction as magma cools.


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

Date
1795
Contributor
Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Giant's Causeway, County Antrim, Ireland, United Kingdom
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists