Giant's Causeway

The Giant's Causeway is located at the foot of basalt cliffs along the sea coast on the edge of the Antrim Plateau in Northern Ireland. It consists of about 40,000 huge black basalt columns emerging from the sea. This dramatic landscape has inspired the legends of giants traveling across the sea to Scotland. Geological studies have also contributed These formations over the past 300 years have greatly contributed to the development of earth sciences, and have shown that this amazing landscape was due to volcanic activity during the Tertiary era; About 50-60 million years ago.