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A lava worm or rock rose? – and why basalt columns have six sides
It looks like some kind of giant, grey underground worm with teeth radiating in its mouth. A sand worm from Dune, which happened to dig its tunnel out of a […]
Caledonian mountain prelude: Volcanoes, rivers and big boulders in Scotland
Four hundred and twenty-something million years ago, a river flowed through the landscape that would one day become Scotland. The river flowed across a plain, green but with only low […]
Where the land shaked: The Pisia fault, Corinth Greece
Greece is restless. Africa pushing northwards has created a tectonic mess of the northeastern Mediterranean. It is a long history of one continent piece of after another clashing into Europe, […]