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RE: Nature Identification Contest (NIC) - win SBI and have fun with nature - steembasicincome V.3
Amazing photo! Beautiful shot and thanks for stopping by! Not sure about the plants or the rocks but perhaps someone here has an idea?
The rock in the background looks like a fan a bit...
Nice guess! The rock ik the background is indeed the interesting feature. But although there are a load of alluvial fans in this region, this rock is not one of them
Basalt fan structure???
Maybe it is a difficult one because you can't walk around it to inspect it further. But it was actually the core (pipe) of a volcano! When the volcano cooled down, the vertical cracks started to form because the material shrinks as it cools, such as in many famous basalt columns. Because it is a harder material it doesn't erode that fast and now these columns are sticking out the landscape. They used to mine those nice, rectangular, hard rocks to make roads, that's why you see so much debris lying around 😁
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Awesome! Basalt rocks! Really cool shot and great explanation!
is that place famous? columnar basalt is cool (or at least form when it cools -hahahaha).
Seems like it would be good for roads... Would love to know more about the history there... have to do some google searching for volcanic history of spain... could be an interesting future post.
I still need to try the debate website... sorry, soon, I will...