
Giant’s Causeway World Heritage Site: Stacked lava layers cooled as basalt columns in the bay called Port Reostan. 2007. (© Petra Watzka)
Our readers in Indonesia or Chile might find it amusing when we Europeans get excited about any old volcanic plug in Germany or an ancient layer of basalt in Ireland but, hey, it’s Geology, it’s Volcanology, it’s the history of our country! So, let’s have a look at the volcanoes once active in Northern Ireland, you might be living there and not have known about some of them! Continue Reading