List of places with columnar jointed volcanics

Basalt columns seen on Porto Santo Island.

Columnar jointed volcanic rocks exist in many places on Earth. Perhaps the most famous basalt lava flow in the world is the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, in which the vertical joints form polygonal columns and give the impression of having been artificially constructed.

Notable columnar jointed volcanics

Africa

Curved columns of rhyolitic tuff at the Hong Kong High Island Reservoir

This may have formed from contractional cooling of basltic lavas.

South Asia

Interlocked basaltic columns at the top of Kavadia mountain at Dewas district, India
India

West Asia

Armenia
Turkey
Vertically jointed columnar basalt of Basalt Rocks Natural Monument in Turkey.

Middle East

Iran
Israel
Hexagons pool, Golan Heights, Israel

East Asia

China
  • Heiyuhe Columnar Joints (黑鱼河柱状节理) [Xianrenqiao (仙人桥)], Longchuan River (龙川江) & Black Fish River, Tengchong
  • Basalt Island area, Hong Kong; including High Island Reservoir area, Hong Kong; although the High Island Reservoir is not basalt but rhyolitic tuff, rich in potash feldspar and quartz phenocrysts.
Japan
Kuril Islands
Columnar basalts at the Cape Stolbchatiy, Kuril islands, Russia
Mongolia
Taiwan
South Korea

Southeast Asia

Malaysia
at Kg Balung Cocos,Tawau,Sabah
Basalt Columns exposed along a river in a remote place in Tawau, Malaysia
  • Along a river in Teck Guan Cocoa Village and by the Balung River near Kg Balung Cocos Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia.
Philippines
Thailand
Vietnam
The Cliff of Stone Plates (Ghềnh Đá Dĩa) near Tuy Hòa city, Phú Yên Province, Vietnam

Central America

El Salvador
  • Cascada Los Tercios, Suchitoto

Europe

Basalt columns in the Rhön, North Bavaria, Germany
Columnar jointing in the basalt of the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland
Faroe Islands
France
Germany
Greenland
  • Qeqertarsuaq, Disko Island[10]
Hungary
  • Badacsony
  • Bér
  • Szanda
  • Szilváskő
  • Somoskő, Hungary-Slovakia border
  • Hegyestű
  • Szent-György-hegy
  • Gulács
  • Haláp
  • Hajagos
  • Uzsa
Iceland
Italy
Portugal
Spain
United Kingdom
Other
Basaltic columns at Milos island.

North America

Columnar jointing in the basalt of the Pain de sucre (sugar bread) in les Saintes, French West Indies
Columnar basalt at Devil's Postpile in California
Canada
Caribbean
United States
Mexico
Basalt columns in the Mascota River, Mexico
Basaltic Prisms of Santa María Regla in Huasca de Ocampo, Hidalgo

Oceania

Australia
Federated States of Micronesia
New Zealand

South America

Mars

Columnar jointed rocks in unnamed crater wall, Marte Vallis region, Mars. Image courtesy of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, Arizona State University.

Several exposures of columnar jointing have been discovered on the planet Mars by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, which is carried by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

Uses

A now-ruined thirteenth-century religious complex called Nan Madol was built using columnar basalt quarried from various locations on the island of Pohnpei.

References

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  9. ↑ Two stone wonders by seaside
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  14. ↑ Pitón volcánico de Cancarix (Wikipedia in Spanish)
  15. ↑ La Gomera: basalt cliffs Los Organos (Wikimedia Commons)
  16. ↑ http://www.luzicke-hory.cz/mista/index.php?pg=zmpansc Website in Czech language with some nice pictures and excellent example of columnar basalt in Northern Bohemia near Kamenicky Senov
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  18. ↑ "GeoSights: Paul Bunyan's Woodpile, Juab County – Utah Geological Survey". geology.utah.gov. Retrieved 2018-09-07.
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  24. ↑ http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/casn95.pdf Department of Conservation, "Blackhead: Vegetation condition after quarrying"
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  26. ↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/purecaffeine/8351312880/
  27. ↑ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=38904
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