Tag: Geologic Sites
+20 Surreal Places To Visit in United States of America Before...
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...
Pink Lake : What is Pink Lake? What causes Pink Lake...
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 : What is Zebra Schist? Where is it found?
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, Arizona
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...
Fly Geyser, Nevada, USA
There are two geysers on the Fly Ranch property. The first was created nearly 100 years ago as part of an effort to make...
Dyke cutting Canary Islands, Spain
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)...
Intrusive Basalt Dike “Acadia National Park”
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...
Brimham Rocks, England
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 Haven Beach, England
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...
Elephant Rock, Iceland
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...
Dechen Cave, Germany
The Dechen Cave (German: Dechenhöhle) in Iserlohn, Germany is one of the most beautiful and most visited show caves in Germany. It is located...
Geology of Lavacicle Caves
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...
Giant’s Causeway, Ireland
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
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...
+20 Most Amazing Landscapes and Rock Formations
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...
+20 Strange Geological Formations On Earth
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...
Vermilion Cliffs
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...
Flysch Rock Formation, Zumaia Spain
Flysch is a sequence of sedimentary rocks that is deposited in a deep marine facies in the foreland basin of a developing orogen. Flysch...
Watermelon Valley, Egypt
Name: Watermelon Valley "Wadi El Battikh"
Locality: New Valley Governorate, Egypt
Chert nodules of the Drunka Formation (Lower Eocene) are mostly spherical, have diameters from 40...
Jewel Cave National Monument
Jewel Cave National Monument contains Jewel Cave, currently the third longest cave in the world, with 181.89 miles (292.72 kilometers) of mapped passageways. It...