Columnar joints

Rock type: 
Age: 
61 millions years

Great Britain, , Northern Ireland, Giant's Causeway. Basalt. Paleogene. Paleocene.

Rock type: 
Age: 
1 millions years

Madeira, trail between "Miradouro da Encumeada" - "Pico Ruivo". Basaltic dyke. Columnar joints. Upper volcanic complex. Cenozoic. Quaternary. Pliestocene.

Rock type: 
Age: 
1 millions years

Madeira,  trail between "Miradouro da Encumeada" - "Pico Ruivo". Columnar joints. Basaltic dyke. Upper volcanic complex. Cenozoic. Quaternary. Pliestocene.

Rock type: 
Age: 
1 millions years

Madeira, trail between "Pico Ruivo" - "Curral Das Freiras". Columnar joints. Basaltic dyke. Upper volcanic complex. Cenozoic. Quaternary. Pliestocene.

Rock type: 
Age: 
4 millions years

Madeira, trail between "Pico Areeiro" - "Pico Ruivo". Basaltic interchange lavas and pyroclastic material. Columnar joints. Intermediate volcanic complex. Cenozoic. Neogene. Pliocene.

Rock type: 
Age: 
4 millions years

Madeira, trail between "Pico Areeiro" - "Pico Ruivo". Basaltic interchange lavas and pyroclastic material. Columnar joints. Intermediate volcanic complex. Cenozoic. Neogene. Pliocene.

Rock type: 
Age: 
16 millions years

Russia, Khabarovsk Territory.

Rock type: 
Age: 
3 millions years

Sardinia, Cartoe. Alkaline to transitional basalts, basalts, trachibasalts and hawaites in large lava flows, locally bearing peridotitic nodules, scoriaceous cones. Basalt columnar joints. Pliocene-Lower Pleistocene.