Columnar Basalt Formation - Quickly Described 😍😍😎 Columnar Basalt is the result of cooling and cracking of an unusually thick basaltic lava flow. Columns are often 50 feet high or more! Geology Love

A glacial outburst flood from the Suicide Basin (pictured here) and the Mendenhall Glacier caused a record amount of water (we are talking more than 22,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools) to flood the Mendenhall River Valley and northern Juneau, Alaska. This is the second year in a row that the entire basin has drained, causing back-to-back years of record flooding downstream. Scientists who study these events and Alaska's changing and warming climate say that these types of floods would not be po

The U.S. Geological Survey released video footage taken from the air Monday, showing fountains of lava feeding a massive river of red-hot, bubbling molten rock flowing toward the ocean. Read the story: https://trib.al/BDE9uoO | SFGATE