Gone And Will Never Return
Oct 28, 2015
"This" is what I saw on a geological excursion recently - it used to be a giant wall, even 20 meters high and 12 kilometers long.
It wasn't made by humans, but by nature - it's a dyke of basalt that intruded into a long rift and while cooling it cracked into this structure looking like stacked logs. After millions of years the surrounding rocks weathered and only the more resistant basalt dyke was left as a giant wall across the land. Humans started to call it "Devil's Wall" and feared it. But soon the wall was getting in their way so they made a hole in it to be able to pass through it. They quickly found out that the basalt was a great building material and started to disassemble it.
And that was the end of the great Devil's Wall. Nowadays you can find only tiny remnants of it. The rocks are beautiful, even though they're small, but learning about this story made me really sad - I don't mean to blame our ancestors for disassembling it but imagine what the wall could've looked like before humans touched it! It must have been something so fascinating, a 20 meters high wall from horizon to horizon!
Doesn't it make your heart ache that such an amazing thing is simply gone and will never come back? It makes me wonder how many other beautiful things are being destroyed nowadays. Please, let's do our best so that we don't destroy such amazing sites thoughtlessly like this and make sure our descendants can be fascinated by their original glory as well.
...Yeah, and colorful autumn is great! :3
Helix S.
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Beautiful art. It's very sad that such a thing had to happen to this gorgeous sight. Thank you for sharing this story. (Looking at your color scheme makes me smile as usual. Keep up the amazing work.)
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