I hustled after them, scanning the basalt escarpments, streaked with snow. I looked up the valley, where Putorana's plateaus rolled like waves to the horizon. The sheep had vanished. On our next ...

This basalt desert has been a home to different settlements and was occupied from the time immemorial.“The Black Desert is ...

The Deccan traps formed during the eruption of a volcano that took place around 66 million years ago and resulted in the end of the Cretaceous period.

The Giant's Causeway lies at the foot of the basalt cliffs along the sea coast on the edge of the Antrim plateau in Northern Ireland. It is made up of some 40,000 massive black basalt columns sticking ...