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Northern Ireland and the Giant's Causeway
Expensive - or bridge - the Giants , as well as the unique name of the Giant Trail area north of Bushmills , Ireland. Unique landscape , like uneven cobbled cobbles Allen , thousands of steps of different heights goes directly into the foam of the surf.
Giant's Causeway is the order of 40,000 basalt and andesite hexagonal pillars , going deep into the earth to 10-12 meters. Post- column so tightly fitted to each other , that may seem rocky monolith. Poles obyurazovalis deep dresnosti , a volcanic eruption.
About 20 million years ago, Ireland could boast a chain of volcanoes , the temperature in the interior of which was large enough that melted hard rocks such as basalt. Basaltic lava flowing down to the sea powerful stream , and cooled , freezing , cracked . Cracks split the lava stone , breaking it up into thousands of polygonal pillars. Most of them have six faces.
Some poles pushed out above the rest in groups or poobinochke so formed step jump , stretching into the sea. Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast all the Coast in 1986 became a World Heritage site by UNESCO. And since 1987 Expensive giants announced the Department of Environment Northern Ireland national reserve .
Its name Giant's Causeway received from an old Irish legend. The legend said about the giant Finn McCool Terrible , who built a road across the sea , driving into the bottom bazaltvye column. When the giant fell asleep , exhausted after drove past the pillars and completed the construction of the road, his enemy , the giant Finn Gal took a moment to make out part of the road that led to its coast .
Today it is not so important whether the volcano caused the formation roads or indeed the ancient giant drove thousands of columns and shore seabed. After all , from wherever it may come from, Giant's Causeway - the most popular attraction in the whole of Northern Ireland.
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