Tag: Geologic Sites

Hormuz Island Hormuz Island has an area of 42 km2 (16 sq mi). It is covered by sedimentary rock and layers of volcanic material on...

Hormuz Island, also known as Hormoz, is an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf. Located in the Strait of Hormuz, 8 kilometres (5 mi)...

1. Lava Beds National Monument, California Lava Beds National Monument in Siskiyou and Modoc County is located in north east California. This monument is located...

Places To Visit in United States of America In this Article you will find some of the best natural Places To Visit in United States...

What is pink lake? Pink Lake is a salt lake in Western Australia's Goldfields-Esperance region. Even if the lake's waters were visibly pink historically, they...

Zebra Schist Zebra Schist is The tightly folded, thinly bedded schists that are derived from sedimentary rocks that are exposed in Kangaroo Island are known...

Horseshoe Bend Horseshoe Bend is a horseshoe-shaped incised meander of the Colorado River located near the town of Page, Arizona, in the United States. Horseshoe Bend...

There are two geysers on the Fly Ranch property. The first was created nearly 100 years ago as part of an effort to make...

Canary Islands The Canary Islands is a Spanish archipelago and the southernmost autonomous community of Spain located in the Atlantic Ocean, 100 kilometres (62 miles)...

What is an intrusive igneous rock? Intrusive, or plutonic, igneous rock forms when magma remains inside the Earth's crust where it cools and solidifies in...

Site Name: Brimham Rocks County: North Yorkshire Brimham Rocks, near Pateley Bridge, consists of a series of Millstone Grit tors together with amosaic of upland plant...

Millook is a deep coastal valley and hamlet in the parish of Poundstock, on the north coast of Cornwall, England. In 2014 the cliffs at...

This basalt sea-cliff on the island of Heimaey in Southern Iceland looks just like a giant elephant or wooly mammoth dipping its trunk into...

The Dechen Cave (German: Dechenhöhle) in Iserlohn, Germany is one of the most beautiful and most visited show caves in Germany. It is located...

What does lavacicle mean? A geological formation consisting of a quantity of lava that dripped from the roof of a cave as it cooled and...

The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption. It is also known as...

Fingal's Cave is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, known for its natural acoustics. The...

Zhangye Danxia, China These rainbow mountains look like something out of a painting. The Danxia landforms, found in China's Gansu Province, are made of strips...

Moeraki Boulders – New Zealand The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago...

The Vermilion Cliffs are the second "step" up in the five-step Grand Staircase of the Colorado Plateau, in northern Arizona and southern Utah. They...