The sandstone xenoliths.
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- Distance
- 1.45 mi
- Elevation gain
- 394 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 36 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,115 ft
- TrailRank
- 28
- Min elevation
- 722 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Coordinates
- 13
- Uploaded
- March 29, 2015
near Wleń, Województwo dolnośląskie (Rzeczpospolita Polska)
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A xenolith (Ancient Greek: “foreign rock”) is a rock fragment which becomes enveloped in a larger rock during magma emplacement and eruption.
In the Kaczawskie Mountains, near Wleń, Silesia, Poland, there is a place where large amount of sandstone xenoliths can be found in basalt lava formed in volcanic activity of the Tertiary period. A unique feature of those xenoliths are cooling joints which are characteristic of basalt rocks but not sandstone. They split a rock body into hexagonal or 5-sided, 30 cm long columns.
https://picasaweb.google.com/109099083983785933832/AXenolithPorwakiPiaskowcowe?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCLiNr4jM0d2JXg&feat=directlink Fot. Stefan Kłosiewicz
In the Kaczawskie Mountains, near Wleń, Silesia, Poland, there is a place where large amount of sandstone xenoliths can be found in basalt lava formed in volcanic activity of the Tertiary period. A unique feature of those xenoliths are cooling joints which are characteristic of basalt rocks but not sandstone. They split a rock body into hexagonal or 5-sided, 30 cm long columns.
https://picasaweb.google.com/109099083983785933832/AXenolithPorwakiPiaskowcowe?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCLiNr4jM0d2JXg&feat=directlink Fot. Stefan Kłosiewicz
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Wleński Gródek
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A castle on basalt pillows
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