In Northern Ireland, thousands of stone columns appeared in a matter of days: scientists explained the mysterious phenomenon
The scientist found that the road of giants was formed 50-60 million years ago.
Curator of Natural Sciences at the National Museum of New York, Mike Simms, suggested that the Giant Road was actually formed in a very different way and that it took only a few days, not thousands of years.
The Daily Mail writes about it.
The Road of the Giants is a unique attraction in Northern Ireland, which, in fact, consists of 40,000 hexagonal columns smoothly descending into the sea. Millions of tourists a year come here to see this miracle of nature with their own eyes.
There are many theories about how the road of the giants formed. According to one of them, these amazing stones were built by the mythical giant Finn McCool. However, scientists have their own view on the formation of the road of giants.
Scientists suggest that unusual stone columns were formed over thousands of years under the influence of volcanic lava. It was believed that the river valley was filled with lava accumulated at a greater depth than usual. When the thick layer of the bench hardened, it created the conditions for the formation of hexagonal stones.
However, in a new study, Mike Simms, curator of natural sciences at the National Museum of New York, suggests that the Giant Road was actually formed in a very different way, and that it took only a few days, not thousands of years, to do so. In fact, the hexagonal rocks were formed when lava filled a depression and then subsided, resulting in the Valley of the Giants. If we took an unbaked cake out of the oven, its middle would sag.
Earlier it became known that in Prague, scientists discovered the remains of round structures of the Stone Age. Their main feature is that they are older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids.