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PhanTomCat
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8th Wonder of the World (Giant's Causeway - Ireland)......
#7850516 - 01/08/08 09:08 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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Never had I heard of this place, until last night.....! Is this a place that everyone knows about, and I just live under a rock or something...!?





It is featured on Led Zeppelin's album "Houses of the Holy", but it kind of looks like it may be an artist's creation.... How is this NOT one of the "wonders of the world"....? 
It is freakin COOOOOOOL......!!!! 
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Re: 8th Wonder of the World (Giant's Causeway - Ireland)...... [Re: PhanTomCat]
#7850530 - 01/08/08 09:10 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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Ireland has some amazing archaeological sites. I have never heard of this one before. Looks
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Re: 8th Wonder of the World (Giant's Causeway - Ireland)...... [Re: AlteredAgain]
#7850587 - 01/08/08 09:20 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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There's a place just like that in California called Devil's Post Pile.
I was there for the 6.8.2004 Venus Transit, it was out of this world...
 
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Re: 8th Wonder of the World (Giant's Causeway - Ireland)...... [Re: Middleman]
#7850665 - 01/08/08 09:33 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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DoooD, Holy shit....!!  I guess I understand why it isn't a "wonder of the world", if there is more than one....
Alright, this is going on the "must see" places list, Fo~ Sho~....  CA is much more within reach than Ireland.... F'n A, I am going....! 
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Re: 8th Wonder of the World (Giant's Causeway - Ireland)...... [Re: PhanTomCat]
#7850752 - 01/08/08 09:50 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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Right on, it would be worth the journey, the magnetism is PRISTINE.
Devil's post pile is among my favorite places to trip, along with:
Cathedral Rock - Sedona, AZ Valley of the Giants - Redwood National Park, CA Joshua Tree National Park, CA Mount Shasta, CA Yosemite Valley, CA The Grand Canyon, AZ
California is like a natural wonder amusement park.
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Re: 8th Wonder of the World (Giant's Causeway - Ireland)...... [Re: Middleman]
#7851321 - 01/08/08 11:28 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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DaMMiT, I wish I would have planned my road trip out to AZ a little better a few years ago....  I didn't have a job for a while, and had all the time in the world....  It would be nice to hit Yellowstone as well.... Oh well.... 
These crystal formations remind me of those sites CA and Ireland....

 It "reminds" me of ruins from some far off and ancient and mythical city.... Also, kinda~ fractalesque.... 
 (thanx~ to adrug for designing the cool art t-shirt / makeshift backdrop )
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Re: 8th Wonder of the World (Giant's Causeway - Ireland)...... [Re: PhanTomCat]
#7870589 - 01/12/08 07:47 PM (16 years, 20 days ago) |
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I can't believe I never knew that existed. I'm visiting the place for sure.
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Re: 8th Wonder of the World (Giant's Causeway - Ireland)...... [Re: PhanTomCat]
#7882571 - 01/15/08 10:28 AM (16 years, 17 days ago) |
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Anybody know what type of rock they are made of and what would give them such beautiful geometry?
Nice pictures Middleman, didn't realize there was something like that here in Cali!
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Re: 8th Wonder of the World (Giant's Causeway - Ireland)...... [Re: Rebirtha]
#7894085 - 01/17/08 05:41 PM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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looks like it could fall at any time...I wouldn't stand under that haha
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Re: 8th Wonder of the World (Giant's Causeway - Ireland)...... [Re: dumbfounded1600]
#7895570 - 01/17/08 11:36 PM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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Yeah, there are warning signs saying not to climb on the pile in front of the columns, but we did anyway.
Here's the wiki article:
Devil's postpile is a dark cliff of columnar basalt near Mammoth Mountain in eastern California. The postpile was created by a lava flow sometime between less than 100,000 years ago (according to current potassium-argon dating) to 700,000 years ago (according to other dating methods). The source of the lava is thought to have been somewhere near Upper Soda Springs campground at the north end of Pumice Flat on the floor of the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin River, from where it flowed to the site of the Postpile, was impounded by a moraine, and reached a thickness of 400 feet (newer estimate) to 600 feet (older estimate). In any event, the lava that now makes up the Postpile was near the bottom of this mass.
Because of its great thickness, much of the mass of pooled lava cooled slowly and evenly, which is why the columns are so long and so symmetrical. Columnar jointing occurs when certain types of lava cool; the joints develop when the lava contracts during the cooling process.
A glacier later removed much of this mass of rock and left a nicely polished surface on top of the Postpile with very noticeable glacial striations and glacial polish.
Devils Postpile was once part of Yosemite National Park, but discovery of gold near Mammoth Lakes prompted a boundary change that left the Postpile on adjacent public land. A proposal to build a hydroelectric dam later called for blasting the Postpile into the river. Influential Californians, including John Muir, persuaded the federal government to stop the demolition and in 1911, President Howard Taft made the area into a United States National Monument. The John Muir Trail and Pacific Crest Trail pass through the monument.
The Postpile's columns average 2 feet in diameter, the largest being 3.5 feet, and many are up to 60 feet long. Together they look like tall posts stacked in a pile, hence the feature's name. If the lava hadcooled in a perfectly even manner, all of the columns would be expected to be hexagonal, but they are not. A survey of 400 of the Postpile's columns found that 44.5% were 6-sided, 37.5% 5-sided, 9.5% 4-sided, 8.0% 7-sided, and 0.5% 3-sided.[1] Compared with other examples of columnar jointing, the Postpile has more 6-sided columns. Another thing that places the Postpile in a special category is the lack of horizontal jointing.
Several stones from the Devil's Postpile can be seen at the entrance to the United States Geological Survey headquarters lot in Reston, Virginia.
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