Aspen,CO ColoradoBe it ever so humble, there’s no place like a home in the midvalley – gateway to Aspen.Yeah, headlines of $1 million homes in the midvalley this week have me gleaming like a dirt pimp ...

The excitement is big down in West Basalt (is there really a coterminous line between the town’s “east” and “west” portions, or are the politicians just lazy?), now that a Whole Foods store has ...

Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland features around 40,000 exposed polygonal columns of basalt in perfect horizontal sections. Chris Hill/Photodisc via Getty Images The reason patterns often appear ...

Great things are happening up in Basalt. And it’s all thanks to the people who live there. One of those things is the recent push-back against a town plan to use $5 million in sales tax revenues to ...

This collection of basalt columns was recorded in a canyon north of Molokai, at a depth of just over a mile, according to Nautilus Live Ocean Exploration Trust. YouTube video screengrab Newly recorded ...

Sometimes natural processes can create surprisingly complex and regular patterns, fooling some into thinking they discovered the artifacts of a lost civilization. One striking example of such ...

VANTAGE, Wash. — Walls of basalt, from the Royal Columns above the Tieton River west of Naches to the endless array on the Grant County bluffs overlooking the Columbia River, make Central Washington a ...

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