A study finds that hollow, land-based lava pillars in Iceland likely formed in a surprising reaction where lava met water without an explosion. Such formations are common deep under the ocean, but ...

But few current Westmorly students would know the existence of those pillars today. In yet another example of the seeming miscommunication between and fallibility of our administrators, the ...

The meeting of hot lava and cool water formed knobby, hollow pillars in a valley in Iceland, a process that was once thought to occur only in the oceans. Skip to main content.

Gregg was hiking in Iceland in 1998 when she came upon the strange pillars, which almost look like trees without branches. Some of the tallest are 8 feet (2.4 meters) high, and up to 3.3 feet (1 m ...

The mystery of a series of strange, knobby pillars of rock that formed in Iceland has been solved. A creeping lava flow and a stream of water mixed to create hollow, rough pillars that dot the ...

Hollow pillars of lava in an Icelandic valley like those found on the seafloor actually formed when molten rock oozed over soggy land, researchers propose in the Aug. 15 Journal of Volcanology and ...

The list of things occasionally mistaken for UFOs is long, but among the oddest is a series of winter phenomena with odd names like sundogs, halos and sun pillars. Examples began showing up this ...