As Pangea broke up and the plates drifted apart 200 million years ago, magma seeped out of the fissures in the Earth’s crust. That magma became flows of lava, and that lava, rapidly cooling in the air ...

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington, began the injections into the Columbia River Basalt formation near the town of ...

The Drakensberg mountain range extends more than 600 miles across Southern Africa. It encompasses massive sandstone buttresses, grass-covered plateaus, and cathedral-like rock towers that have earned ...

The distinct hexagonal columns found at Kiama's Bombo Headland Quarry on the New South Wales south coast, like those of the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, are a natural phenomenon offering geologists ...