As cries from the public over conflicts of interest continue regarding the future of the riverfront park site in Basalt, a few questions move onto the stage: • Will this become a more private area, or ...

Towards the northeastern coast of County Antrim in Northern Ireland is the spectacular natural phenomenon known as the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland features around 40,000 exposed polygonal columns of basalt in perfect horizontal sections.

The excitement is big down in West Basalt (is there really a coterminous line between the town’s “east” and “west” portions, or are the politicians just lazy?), now that a Whole Foods store has ...

Sometimes natural processes can create surprisingly complex and regular patterns, fooling some into thinking they discovered the artifacts of a lost civilization. One striking example of such ...

Great things are happening up in Basalt. And it’s all thanks to the people who live there. One of those things is the recent push-back against a town plan to use $5 million in sales tax revenues to ...

VANTAGE, Wash. — Walls of basalt, from the Royal Columns above the Tieton River west of Naches to the endless array on the Grant County bluffs overlooking the Columbia River, make Central Washington a ...

There has been a wave of articles over the last few weeks out on the geoblogosphere on columnar jointing in lavas – with many, many great images of columns seen aroundthe world. I thought I’d jump in ...

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