Basalt Wall Found in Taiwan Straits

A rare find in waters off Taiwans coast. A researcher has found a large basalt rock wall while diving in the Taiwan Strait. Lets take a look.
STORY:
The huge basalt rock formation resembles a city wall and rivals similar ones found on land.

The 200 meter-long and ten meter-high monolith looks like thousands of pillars packed together. It was found by Jeng Ming-hsiou near the Pescadores Archipelago.

Jeng is a professor at the state-run Academia Sinica in Taipei.

He was diving in an area about 40 kilometers west of Taiwan's main island when he saw the wall.

The Giant's Causeway on the coast of Ireland and the Wairere Boulders of New Zealand are two well-known basalt formations.

Jeng says the underwater formation was more than likely started by a volcanic eruption as far back as 1,800 years ago.

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• ntd
• basalt wall
• taiwan
• basalt rock formation
• jeng ming-hsiou
• pescadores archipelago
• adademia sinica
• taipei

[dylanayla]

YO CREO QUE SON TODOS UNOS PUTOSSSSS

[WairereBoulders]

The other world unique place is the Wairere Boulders

[XiHuanArron]

oo..

that's so interesting..

[cmsahe]

I can barely wait to read the opinion of Graham Hancock on this discovery.