What is the road to the giants?

Giant's Road has also been translated into "Giant's Stone Road", which is a famous tourist attraction in Ireland. It is located in a headland on the edge of the north coast of Ann Triem County, Northern Ireland. About 40,000 basalt "jointed" stone pillars emerged on the sea surface, extending from the cliff to the sea surface and standing on the shore of the sea for thousands of years. Stone pillars are generally about 0.45 meters wide and about 6 kilometers long. Most stone pillars are symmetrical hexagons; There are also four sides, five sides and eight sides. Their cross section is a regular regular polygon, which looks like artificial production. A large number of basalt columns are arranged together, forming a spectacular basalt column forest. They are orderly, beautifully shaped and magnificent.

The Giant's Road coast includes low tide areas, cliffs, roads leading to the top of cliffs and a piece of flat land. The average height of the cliff is 100 meter. The widest point of the headland is about 12 meters, and the narrowest point is only three or four meters, which is the highest place for stone pillars. Some stone pillars here are more than 6 meters above the sea level, and the highest is about 12 meters. The solidified lava on them is about 28 cm thick, some stone pillars are submerged under water, and some are as high as the sea surface.

There are many beautiful legends about the formation of the giant road, but there is no scientific basis. Experts have made a scientific explanation for this problem. For 300 years, geologists have studied its structure and learned that it was formed by the continuous eruption of tertiary active volcanoes. The molten basalt flows out of the ground and contract after cooling, forming hexagonal or quadrilateral and pentagonal prismatic rock columns. This is a rare natural wonder. Geologists believe that the Giant's Road is completely natural basalt.

Giant's Road is the most distinctive place on this coastline. High and low basalt columns, from a distance, really look like walkways built by giants. It is hard to believe that they were formed under the power of nature.

The stone pillars that make up the giant's road continue into stone steps about 6 kilometers long. Some of these stone pillars are more than 6 meters above the sea level, and the highest can reach about 12 meters. Some stone pillars are submerged or as high as the sea surface. Similar columnar basalt landforms are also distributed in other parts of the world, such as Staffa Island in hebrides, southern Iceland and Zhuzi Mountain in China and Jiangsu, but they are not as complete and spectacular as Giant's Road.

Giant's Road is the perfect expression of columnar basaltic rocks. These stone pillars and stone steps form a stone path, just like a dense stone forest. The Giant's Road and the Giant's Road Coast are not only unique natural landscapes, but also provide valuable information for the study of earth science. Rock pillars stand by the sea. They have stood there for thousands of years. Standing on some small stones, you can see that their sections are all regular regular hexagons, as if they were carefully carved by hand.

After the basalt column was formed, it was eroded by glaciers in the Great Ice Age and washed by Atlantic waves, gradually forming a rugged and strange landscape. Basalt pillars are made up of many hexagonal stones stacked together. The exposed part is gradually eroded by the waves along the fault line between stones and is loosely removed. The stone pillars were cut off at different heights, resulting in a stepped appearance of the prototype of the giant road. After thousands of years of erosion and weathering, the stepped effect of basalt dikes was finally formed.