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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡💚
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Devil Postpile. From the bottom up and the top down. I’ve always wanted to experience this. Pursue your adventures when & where you can.
![A view looking southeast upwards at Devil Postpile. There are multiple columns of hexagon basalt columns with a large boulder field in the foreground. The sky is mixed clear and cloudy.
From Wikipedia:
The Postpile's columns average 2 feet (0.61 m) in diameter ("The columns vary in size from ten to 30 inches in diameter."[3]), the largest being 3.5 feet (1.1 m), and many are up to 60 feet (18 m) long.
Together they look like tall posts stacked in a pile, hence the feature's name. If the lava had cooled perfectly evenly, all of the columns would be expected to be hexagonal, but some of the columns have different polygonal cross-sections due to variations in cooling.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:xrxbycbachtxi4gjqk3f4rzb/bafkreiak5kktqlqs4qv3ozgcmce3h5d6tjtezctql4ph6bftzx7mx7xmm4@jpeg)
![A view looking from the top of Devil Postpile. There are multiple columns of hexagon basalt columns that are flat. There are two short pine trees in the immediate foreground and a conifer forest covered granite hill on the background with a mostly blue sky.
From Wikipedia:
The Postpile's columns average 2 feet (0.61 m) in diameter ("The columns vary in size from ten to 30 inches in diameter."[3]), the largest being 3.5 feet (1.1 m), and many are up to 60 feet (18 m) long.
Together they look like tall posts stacked in a pile, hence the feature's name. If the lava had cooled perfectly evenly, all of the columns would be expected to be hexagonal, but some of the columns have different polygonal cross-sections due to variations in cooling.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:xrxbycbachtxi4gjqk3f4rzb/bafkreiekk34neqtmjjp6fqsxibpyn4ofgqvvygy2abbqgaxxxcn2vga37y@jpeg)
WOW, columnar basalt 😻😻
Wow! And more wow! What an incredible formation.
Ahhhhh I love this place!! Such a fantastic geological locale!!
Basalt pillars are frikin WILD
Oh wow, cool! I think that’s what makes up Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, too. Gord’s family is from that area (well, closer to Belfast) and he showed me photos of it ages ago. Must be something else entirely to see it up close.
Definitely missed that opportunity
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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡💚
@mariannedenton.bsky.social
builder of community via water infrastructure |
living a technicolor life in a B&W world |
naturalist • explorer • observer |
defender of democracy |
still a scientist |
2 hrs/day
2.7k followers506 following4.5k posts