Elephant rock

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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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just realized this is the first panorama taken in my country! so its kind of a special one :D there are many to come of this beautiful trip 7 portrait oriented pics stitched in PS CS4 View On Black Al Ula, Saudi Arabia

Athugala Elephant Rock is found in Kurunegala. The rock is 325 meters in height and resembles the shape of an elephant and at top of the…

Explorer Levison Wood takes us on his tour of AlUla, Saudi Arabia and finds many welcome surprises, from sunset at Elephant Rock to meeting the local wildlife

This basalt sea-cliff on the island of Heimaey in Southern Iceland looks just like a giant elephant or wooly mammoth dipping its trunk into the sea.

“The famous “Elephant Rock” in Iceland. Wow!”

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Elephant rock. Near Al Ula, the Elephant Rock is a natural beauty produced in the sandstone by the regular sandstorms over thousand of years. Al Ula is characterised by its attractive natural scenery marked by the reddish sandstone inselbergs carved by natural agencies into beautiful and attractive shapes. Sand dunes and inselbergs combined together to form a wonderful display of thrilling nature. During winter and spring, after the rain, the areas turns into green fields attracting the…

Elephant Rock’ is a natural rock formation in Heimaey, part of the Westman Islands or Vestmannaeyjar. Read our guide about Elephant Rock in Iceland!