Kirkjuaejarklaustur's basalt Kirkjugolf

by RicardMN Photography

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Kirkjuaejarklaustur's basalt Kirkjugolf

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Kirkjugólf (literally: Church Floor) is an interesting rock formation to the east of Kirkjubæjarklaustur, flat basalt columns that look almost like a man made floor.

Kirkjubæjarklaustur, often called Klaustur, is a village in South Iceland. With a population of around 160, it is the closest thing to an urban area within a vast municipality called Skaftárhreppur, and it's the only proper service centre on the almost 300km stretch of the ring road between Vík and Höfn.

The basaltic columns (or basalt colonnade or basaltic organs) are regular formations of more or less vertical pillars, in the shape of polygonal prisms (predominantly hexagonal), which are formed by progressive fracture of the rock during the relatively slow cooling of basaltic lava in some flows, in volcanic chimneys or in boilers that do not overflow or empty suddenly, so that their cooling takes place in situ. These cracks are a special case of jointing called a columnar disjunction. (Derscription from Wikipedia)

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March 2nd, 2021

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