Sentences with phrase «hexagonal columns»

Visit Giant's Causeway where some 40,000 closely - packed hexagonal columns descend like a staircase into the sea.

They are actually the edges of roughly hexagonal columns of igneous rock, similar to other geometric landmarks such as Ireland's Giant's Causeway or Devils Postpile in California.

Snow crystals can grow into a wide variety of shapes, ranging from thin, plate - like flakes to slender hexagonal columns, and what shape they take depends on the temperature in which they grow.

These needles are slender hexagonal columns that form at mid-humidity and relatively warm temperatures, around 23 degrees Fahrenheit.

From the book: «Like something out of an epic fantasy novel, Scotland's Fingal's Cave is a 270 - foot - deep, 72 - foot - tall sea cave with walls of perfectly hexagonal columns.

First there's the unusual shape that takes getting used to — each dwelling consists of a tilted cube on a hexagonal column.

Not exact matches

The surface is pulled in towards the ordered collection of rods, and the exterior of the drop begins to conform to the hexagonal packing pattern of the columns, forming facets.

A fine hall lantern in the neoclassical Adam Manner Constructed in bronze, of hexagonal form, containing a central column issuing three arms, with «s» form faux candleholders; each pil...