Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

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Scientists have traced a 60-million-year volcanic trail from Iceland to Ireland to a deep mantle plume that shaped the North ...

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Folks travel worldwide to see some of nature’s most spectacular basalt columns. Perhaps the most famous is the Giant’s Causeway on the North Atlantic Coast in Northern Ireland. California’s Devil’s ...

Reynisfjara and Iceland's trademark basalt columns Possibly one of the most well-known locations in Iceland is Reynisfjara, a beach on the southern coast with striking black sand and aggressive waves.

The country of Iceland feels like a whole world in itself. One moment, you’ll be climbing basalt columns on a black sand beach, and then, all of the sudden, in the blink of an eye, you’ll be ...

It is a world-famous black-sand beach that features basalt columns. Dozens of movies and TV shows have been filmed on this beach, including Game of Thrones, Star Wars: Rogue One, and Star Trek ...

But on the north shore of Iceland a few weeks per year, Sweet is also a de facto surfing instructor for Deplar Farm, a 15th-century sheep farm that’s been converted into a boutique luxury resort ...