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Thanks for your visit. Comments, faves and invitations are very appreciated. The elephant is a basalt rock formation on Heimaey, the largest of the Westman Islands, Iceland. It is made of columnar basalt. The columns are pentagonal (5-sided) in cross section. Columnar basalt forms during the cooling of a thick lava flow when contractional joints or fractures are created. If a flow cools relatively rapidly, significant contraction forces build up. While a flow can shrink in the vertical…

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