Basalt (column)
Irish Giant (Large) Embankment
（giant’s causeway）
Northern Ireland's Giant's Causeway is located approximately 80 kilometers northwest of Belfast, Northern Ireland, on the Atlantic coast. A coast of 8 kilometers is composed of a total of about 40,000 hexagonal pillars. The stone pillars are continuous and orderly, extending into the sea in a staircase.
"The Giant's Causeway" is a perfect expression of the geomorphology of columnar basalt rocks. These pillars constitute a stone path with stone steps, and like a dense forest at the widest. It also provides valuable information for the study of earth sciences.
The Giant's Causeway is a tight combination of numerous (more than 37,000) basalt pillars. It is rare in the world for such a large-scale basalt cluster. The cause of the Giant's Cause consists of two versions of folklore and a more authoritative version of geology.
Both versions of the legend are the same actor Irish giant (hero): Finn McCool. In the first version, the protagonist wanted to fight with the Scottish giant Finn Gail, so he built this six-diamond stone pillar seawall to go to Scotland. The giant was asleep when it was completed. At this time, the Scottish giant passed first. This giant road came to peek at the opponent's strength, and met the witty Irish giant's wife who took him to see the back of Finn McCool's sleeping, and told the Scottish giant that this was a child of the Irish giant and was only a baby. Seeing the baby is so huge, how terrible is his father? So he fled back to Scotland and demolished the seawall behind him, leaving only the Irish seaside. The second version of the actor is obviously romantic. This seawall by Finn McCour is to see her beloved girl courting her.
The geological explanation is very clear. About 50 million years ago (late Cretaceous, Tertiary), this vast area was violently violent due to crustal movement. The smelted basalt melt flowed into the sea to rapidly cool and crystallize. The strength is uniform, forming regular hexagons or pentagons, and the cracks are small and vertical. The breadth and height of this scale should be accumulated from five or six eruptions.
The Giant's Causeway coast includes low tide areas, cliffs, roads and flats to the top of the cliffs. A large number of basalt columns are arranged to form a stone column forest, which has a magnificent momentum. The mountains depend on the sea, and the sea borrows mountain views to form this natural stepped stone path. Its significance has already transcended the boundaries of natural landscape and earth science research.
Geologists studied the structure and found that this natural stairway was formed by the continuous eruption of active volcanoes and volcanic lava overflowing multiple times. After the erosion of the waves, the Shizhu Groups were truncated at different heights, showing the uneven landscape of the stone pillars. With tens of thousands of such basalt columns arranged irregularly, stretching for several kilometers, it is magnificent and spectacular.
The Giant's Causeway and the coast are magnificent and spectacular. This stone pillar has many hexagons, but also has four sides, five sides, and octagons. Magnificent, the picture is complete and beautiful.
