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1 posted on 10/28/2009 9:56:20 PM PDT by cogitator
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2 posted on 10/28/2009 9:57:45 PM PDT by cogitator
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Nice pics!

The Russian says “Rock in Natalya Bay on Urup Island.”


3 posted on 10/28/2009 10:10:48 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat (A penny saved is a penny paid in taxes)
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That is just TOO freakin’ cool...


5 posted on 10/28/2009 10:25:18 PM PDT by Rafterman ("If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting." -- Curtis LeMay)
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The waterfall pic is incredible. BTT.


7 posted on 10/28/2009 10:30:15 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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The waterfall is awesome...Michigan has some nice ones but not that big...One summer we camped and visited most of them...Saw some big one's in Alaska also...

Those pic's are beautiful.......

9 posted on 10/28/2009 11:19:10 PM PDT by goat granny
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It's really spectacular. It reminds me a lot of Morro Rock in Morro Bay, CA (which is not columnar basalt but has roughly the same appearance).

The Irish may be a little peeved with you for the typo feat of moving their cherished Giant's Causeway to Iceland though.

10 posted on 10/28/2009 11:49:31 PM PDT by Bernard Marx ("Civilizations die by suicide, not from murder" Toynbee)
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Big deal. Take a look at a photo of a mile-high column on the Moon, here: http://www.hallofthegods.org/2009/06/moon-anomalies-shard.html


11 posted on 10/29/2009 12:17:23 AM PDT by earglasses (I was blind, and now I hear...)
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The Island Lair of Dr. Evil & Mini-Me


12 posted on 10/29/2009 12:51:27 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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I have a particular fondness for columnar basalt: the geological formation found at Devil's Tower, the Devil's Postpile, Svartifoss waterfall in Iceland, New York's Palisades, Giant's Causeway in Iceland, etc.

One letter off: The Giant's Causeway is in Northern Ireland.

Dr. Samuel Johnson famously described it as: "Worth seeing but not worth going to see."

13 posted on 10/29/2009 1:02:34 AM PDT by wideminded
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Am I right?

Yes. It's stunning. Thanks for posting these incredible pictures.

14 posted on 10/29/2009 1:08:24 AM PDT by giotto
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That’s the columnarest of columnar basalt I’ve seen.


15 posted on 10/29/2009 4:38:38 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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