Talking to PTI, environmentalist and geologist Prof Suresh Chopane said, 'It is a rare natural rock called columnar basalt formed from the lava of a massive volcanic eruption in Maharashtra that ...

Craic on: was the Giant's Causeway formed by collective cracking? The formation of the spectacular hexagonal stone columns at Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway and similar structures around the world can be ...

Northern Ireland is home to the Giant’s Causeway, a collection of about 40,000 hexagonal basalt columns that protrude from the North Atlantic Ocean and lead up to the foot of a cliff. The UNESCO World ...

The National Trust has issued a fresh plea to visitors of Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway, urging them to stop pushing coins into the cracks of the site’s iconic basalt columns. What may seem like ...

A columnar basalt rock pillar formed six crore years back from volcanic lava has been discovered during a road construction work at a village in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra, a leading geologist ...