Talking to PTI, environmentalist and geologist Prof Suresh Chopane said, 'It is a rare natural rock called columnar basalt formed from the lava of a massive volcanic eruption in Maharashtra that ...

Craic on: was the Giant's Causeway formed by collective cracking? The formation of the spectacular hexagonal stone columns at Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway and similar structures around the world can be ...

Northern Ireland is home to the Giant’s Causeway, a collection of about 40,000 hexagonal basalt columns that protrude from the North Atlantic Ocean and lead up to the foot of a cliff. The UNESCO World ...

If you have ever wandered around in nature you may have noticed how many geometric shapes there are in the world that have absolutely no design from humans. Take snail shell spirals or starfishes' ...

A columnar basalt rock pillar formed six crore years back from volcanic lava has been discovered during a road construction work at a village in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra, a leading geologist ...