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The Giant's Causeway

My name is Ciara Hughes and I'm from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is a small province located in the north east of the island of lreland. I really love living here because there are beautiful places to visit and everything is so green because the weather is mild and it rains a lot.My favourite thing to do is going on family trips, especially going to the countryside where there a many lakes and rivers.This year my cousins from Italy are visiting us, so we are planning a special trip to the Giant's Causeway. It's a beautiful national

reserve and World Heritage area filled with basalt columns formed by volcanic activity 60 million years ago. In this post, I want to tell you a little bit about this amazing place, the scientific facts, and the magical legend behind the formation of these 40,000 stones.

So, what does science say?

The Giant's Causeway is on the Antrim county coastline. The stones that are a perfect hexagonal shape are the result of molten basalt (melted rocks from a volcanic eruption) that cooled down and contracted across the Antrim Plateau. So, imagine a large pool of magma that goes down the volcano, melting the rocks that cool down, fracture, and form these perfect stones. The scientific explanation seems good to me. But what always amazes me is the hexagonal shape of the stone. It's like someone shaped them perfectly and put them there.Now, let's continue to the legend, which I think is going to be quite interesting.

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