Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland features around 40,000 exposed polygonal columns of basalt in perfect horizontal sections. Chris Hill/Photodisc via Getty Images The reason patterns often appear ...

Rare basalt columns, believed to be 6.5 crore years old, were discovered near Pochera waterfalls in Adilabad district. Columnar basalts are geological structures formed due to lava flow from volcanoes ...

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Why does nature always create a pattern? – Saloni G., age 16, Alwar, Rajasthan, India The reason patterns often appear in nature is simple: The same basic physical or chemical processes occur in many ...

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