Mysterious "Giant's Causeway" Bashny.Net

Today you can see only the "remnants" of the giant "construction" ocean of Northern Ireland in County Antrim - black basalt rocks resembling giant pieces of ill-fitting stone blocks




Millions of years ago, on the Atlantic coast in the place of the future of Northern Ireland as a result of crustal movements were volcanoes that emit a huge amount of basalt lava. When you exit from the crater of the volcano lava cooled and coated hexagonal cracks


As part of the Giant's Causeway about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns. Most of the speakers actually hexagonal, however there are also four, five, and seven, and even octagonal. The highest - about 12 meters high