Kuril Islands are really mysterious and very interesting location. No matter if we observe them from an aspect of geologists who claim that this is just another wonder of nature or from an aspect of some archaeologists who are convinced that those are megastructures made by human’s hand, we have to admit that there is something wonderful in Kuril Islands.
Most of traditional geologists believe that those structures are probably consequence of lava eruption but there is a number of archaeologists who claim that those structures are made out of stone by hands of ancient humans.
It is very hard to believe that those giant structures are made by human but that is what makes them more interesting because it is also hard to believe that they’re pure product of nature and their shapes are telling us that human’s hand might took a part in construction of those impressive structures.
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very similar to the west coast of Ireland
Yes, it is like the Giant’s causeway in Ireland, it is just a basaltic organ, a rock formation created by the brutal cristalisation of magma, such as when a volcano erupts at the surface of the sea. You can find the same in Corsica too.
Columnar basalts. Formed during cooling. Devil’s Tower (Wyoming) is another excellent example of columnar jointing. Nothing strange about this at all. Quite beautiful though.
http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/education/facts/col_joint.html
It certainly does look like a great example of classical columnar basalt, except that it appears to me that the formation may be “upside down,” as though some catastrophe had flipped this gigantic slab over, top-to-bottom. It would be very interesting to get an age analysis of the “upper” and “lower” levels to check this theory.
I agree with Doctor Dirt, looks like it’s upside down
What picture are you referring to as having an overturned structure? There is apparent evidence of structural tilting, but nothing to suggest to me it’s been flipped over completely. Something like that is exceptionally rare – folding would be present, as well as a great deal more fracturing.
Columns are created by the rapid cooling and uplift of the basalts, not contact with water – those are pillow basalts. These are structural joints which form the hexagon-like columns due to the chemistry of the rock.
Archaeologists need to take some more geology classes if they think this is manmade.
These are very nice indeed. You can see similar columns along the rivers running from Portland Oregon to Lewiston Idaho. Mostly there the rock is exposed from the Great Missoula Lake Flood and more recently explosives used to make roadways. They are used for decorations, gardens, fountains, sometimes as decorative building columns, and crushed for gravel.
There is nothing here that shows it being completely turned over, just natural erosion from waterways. I’ve even seen these in near circular patterns.