Chapter 424: The Legend of the Giant

Ye Chao and Tang Yan stood on the cruise ship in the port, looking at the departure place of the Titanic.

Whenever I talk about the Titanic, I feel that it is a beautiful and sad legend......

In short, no matter what, the Titanic, its name has been remembered by the world, and after so many years, there are still generations of people talking about its legend......

Although, this is a legend like a tragic hero......

The story of the Titanic has become a classic, and its story has been made into a movie, and the movie has also become a classic.

It is a miracle in the world's industrial history......

It leaves behind a series of exclamations, but also a series of sighs......

It is a beautiful and sad legend......

In the movie, there is also a beautiful love story...... In the same way, it is also emotional, the hero is dead, and the heroine is alive, leaving behind a beautiful full-body sketch......

"Let's go, take a look, Giant's Causeway. Ye Chao saw that Tang Yan seemed to be still immersed in the story of the Titanic, and couldn't extricate himself, so he proposed to see the Giant's Road.

The Giant's Causeway, there is also a legend.

At the headland on the edge of the Antrim Plains in Northern Ireland, at the foot of the coastal cliffs, there are about 37,000 hexagonal or pentagonal, quadrangular stone pillars jutting out of the sea.

From the cliff to the sea, it has stood on the shore of the sea for thousands of years.

It is known as the "Giant's Causeay" (also translated as "Giant's Causeway").

Located on the Atlantic coast about 80 kilometers northwest of Belfast in Northern Ireland, the Giant's Causeway is a natural wonder of the world by tens of thousands of basalt columns of uneven size gathered into a causeway that stretches for thousands of meters.

For 300 years, geologists have studied its structure and learned that it was formed in the Tertiary by the continuous eruptions of active volcanoes. In 1986, the "Giant's Causeway" was listed as a World Natural Heritage Site.

The "Giant's Causeway" is a famous tourist attraction in Northern Ireland and was listed as a World Natural Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986.

Legend has it that in ancient times, the Irish giants had to fight the Scottish giants in a duel, so they dug stone pillars, filled in the seabed, and paved a causeway to Scotland, after which the causeway was destroyed, leaving only the current section remaining.

Geologists have studied the structure and found that this natural staircase is formed by the repeated spillage of lava after the continuous eruption of an active volcano. After the erosion of the waves, the stone pillar group is truncated at different heights, showing a stone pillar forest landform of varying heights.

On the coast of the "Giant's Causeway", more than 40,000 of these basalt pillars are arranged irregularly, stretching for several kilometers, and the momentum is magnificent.

The Giant's Route is the most distinctive place on this coastline. These more than 37,000 uniformly sized basalt columns gather together to form a causeway that stretches for thousands of meters, and the shape is so regular that it looks as if it was hewn by hand.

A large number of basalt columns are lined up to form a spectacular forest of basalt columns. They are in orderly, beautiful shapes, and their majestic momentum is breathtaking. The "Giant's Causeway" is a natural wonder of the world.

It was declared a World Natural Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 and is also a famous tourist attraction in Northern Ireland.

The cross-sectional width of the stone pillars that make up the Giant's Road is between 37~51 cm, with a typical width of about 0.45 meters and a duration of about 6,000 meters. Most of these pillars are hexagonal, but there are also quadrilateral, pentagonal, heptagonal and octagonal pillars, with the widest part of the headland being about 12 meters wide and the narrowest point being only 3 or 4 meters, which is also the highest place of the stone pillars.

Here, some of the stone pillars are more than 6 meters above the sea level, and the highest can reach about 12 meters, and the solidified lava on them is about 28 centimeters thick. There are also stone pillars that are hidden under the water or as high as the sea.

Standing on some of the smaller rocks, you can see that they are regular polygons in cross-section. The shapes of the different pillars have figurative names, such as "Chimney Pipe Cap", "Big Wine Bowl" and "Madame's Fan".

Modern geologists have unraveled the mystery of the "Giant's Causeway" by studying its structure.

The "Giant's Causeway" is actually entirely a natural basalt. At the end of the Cretaceous period, the embryonic North Atlantic Ocean began to continue to divide and expand, and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge was the center of the division and expansion, as well as the plate boundary of separation. The magma in the upper mantle rises up from the rift valleys of the middle ridge, covering a large area with layers of lava.

At that time, the main position of the North Atlantic was determined, but its boundaries were in the stage of formation and change. Although the North American continent and the Eurasian continent have been separated, the newly formed sea lanes between the North American continent and Europe, which are now separated, are still developing.

About 80 million years ago, the west coast of Greenland separated from Canada, but the southeast coast is still closely connected to the northwest coast of the British Isles opposite.

After about 20 million years, these coasts began to separate. This series of geological changes has led to violent crustal movements and frequent volcanic eruptions on both sides of the Atlantic. There are now large volcanoes on the Isles of Skye, Laum, Mull and Arran, as well as on the Scottish mainland of Cape Adnamerchen and in Ireland in the south of Slive Galion, Clifton and Morne.

These ancient volcanoes must have been spectacular in their early days, but the most important records of the time are floods, plateaus and basalts.

About 50 million years ago (i.e., the Tertiary Period), volcanoes were very active from the line of the Inner Hebrides in present-day western Scotland to eastern Northern Ireland, and the lava plateaus of present-day Ireland and Scotland were formed by large-scale lava flows at that time. The basalt that erupts is a particularly hot fluid lava.

It has been recorded that its downhill flow speed exceeds 48 kilometers per hour. Fluid lava is more likely to spread over a large area, hence the term "flood basalt". They form large chunks of lava that are spread throughout the volcanic activity zone.

There is a similar geological situation in the Deccan Plateau in India, where 700,000 cubic kilometers of basalt lava were formed on the Deccan Plateau 4000~60 million years ago.

Strands of basalt lava gushed out of the cracks in the earth's crust and flowed like a river to the sea, where they quickly cooled into solid basalt and contracted, crystallized, and burst during the solidification of the magma, and the contraction force was very even, so that a regular pattern of columnar bodies was formed, and these patterns were usually hexagonal prisms.

This process is a bit like when a thick layer of silt at the bottom of a quagmire cracks in the sun. The main feature of basalt lava columns is that the cracks stretch straight up and down, and the flow of water can pass from the top to the bottom.

The result is a unique network of basalt columns, all of which are incredibly juxtaposed, with only tiny cracks in between. Since the lava overflowed five or six times at different times, the cliffs formed a multi-layered structure.

The "Giant's Causeway" is a perfect expression of the columnar basalt landscape. These pillars form a stone path with stone steps, and the width is like a dense stone forest. The Giant's Causeway and the Giant's Causeway Coast are not only rugged natural landscapes, but also provide valuable information for the study of earth science.

In the tens of millions of years since its formation, the basalt columns of Cape Jaenz Kausway have been eroded by glaciers during the Great Ice Age and washed by the waves of the Atlantic Ocean. Each basalt pillar is actually made up of several hexagonal stone blocks stacked on top of each other.

The waves gradually erode away the exposed parts along the fault line between the stones, and the stone pillars were truncated at different heights, carrying away the loose ones, resulting in the rudimentary form of the Giant's Road, which took on the rudimentary form of a stepped appearance, and after tens of millions of years of erosion and weathering, the stepped effect of the basalt embankment was finally formed.

The Giant's Way is also known as Giant's Causeway or Giant's Head, a name that originates from Irish folklore. One theory says that the Giant's Route was built by the Irish giant Finn McCool.

He hauled the pillars one by one to the bottom of the sea, so that he could go to Scotland and engage his rival, Finn Gael.

When McCool was finished, he decided to take a break. At the same time, his opponent, Finn Gale, decides to travel across Ireland to gauge his opponent, only to be frightened by the sheer size of the McCurl giant.

Especially after McCool's wife told him that it was in fact the child of a giant, Gale feared for his life as he considered what kind of behemoth the child's father should be. He hastily withdrew to Scotland and destroyed the causeway behind him to prevent Finn McCurle from going to Scotland.

Now all the remnants of the causeway are located on the coast of Antrim.

Ye Chao laughed after hearing these legends, sure enough, all over the world is the same, where there are magical natural landscapes, many legends will naturally be born.

But, whether true or false, the legend is that it is a beautiful story, and they all once pinned some heroic plots and beautiful expectations on the locals.

Also, according to another version, the Giant's Route was built by the Commander of the Irish King's Army, the Giant Finn McCool, to welcome his beloved girl.

Legend has it that the commander of the Irish King's Army, the giant Finn McCurle, was so powerful that during a fight with a Scottish giant, he picked up a stone and threw it at his fleeing opponent.

The stones fell into the sea, and it became the Giant Island today. Later, he fell in love with the Giant Girl, who lived in the Inner Hebrides, and built such a causeway to bring her here.

Columnar basalt landforms similar to the "Giant's Route" are also distributed in other parts of the world, such as Stafa Island in Scotland's Inner Hebrides, South Iceland, Zhuzi Mountain in Liuhe County, Jiangsu, China, and Niutou Mountain Scenic Area in Zhangzhou, Fujian, China, but they are not as complete and spectacular as the Giant's Causeway.

For example, on Staffa Island in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland, there is also a group of basalt columns. The basalt columns are well developed in most parts of the island, and there is a famous huge cave, the Fingal Cave, which has been described in poetry and literature for centuries.

During a visit to the island in 1829, the composer Felix Mendelssohn was inspired by the beauty of the scenery before him to compose the famous orchestral prelude now known as The Inner Hebrides.

According to a January 2008 report by Queen's College in the United Kingdom, the Giant's Causeway, a World Heritage Site, is under threat due to rising sea levels due to global warming.

The report predicts that sea levels will rise by one metre by the end of the 21st century, and more seriously, the ensuing waves and storms will hit the Giant's Path more violently, predicting that between 2050 and 2080, the rocks on the Giant's Track will become steeper, and by the beginning of the 22nd century, it will be difficult to see some of the unique features on the Giant's Track.

This famous attraction is like a legendary giant crossing the Channel to Scotland. For 300 years, geologists have studied its structure and learned that it was formed by the continuous eruptions of active volcanoes in the Tertiary period (about 50 million to 60 million years ago).

This spectacular attraction also pushes the boundaries of earth science.

Between Cape Suver and the bay of England and Ireland, there is a "Giant's Road", known as "Giant's Head".

Legend has it that in ancient times, the Irish giant Finn McCool had to duel with the Scottish giant Finn Gale. To do this, McCool went through great pains to dig the stone pillars and move them to the bottom of the sea, paving them into a causeway to Scotland.

When he was done, he went home to sleep, ready to recharge his batteries and cross the embankment to attack Gael. At this time, Gale was the first to cross the embankment to inspect the enemy, and he couldn't help but be secretly surprised to see that McCool's body was so huge in his sleep.

When McCool's wife was in a hurry, she falsely claimed that the Sleeping Giant was her newborn baby, and Gail was even more horrified, "What kind of behemoth must his father be when the child is so large?"

The ancients could not understand this natural wonder, so they called it the "Giant's Causeway".

The beautiful legend is still being told, but the mystery of this huge natural staircase leading to the sea has been uncovered by geologists, it turns out that it is formed by the multiple overflow crystallization of volcanic lava, and there are very small cracks between the unique basalt columns, which geologists call "joints", and the joints produced when the lava bursts generally have the characteristics of vertical extension, and under the action of the water flowing along the joints, this kind of polygonal stone pillars are formed over time.

Coupled with the erosion of sea waves, it is truncated at different heights, and it presents a stone pillar forest landform of uneven height.

On the coast of the "Giant's Causeway" and "Giant's Causeway" in the United Kingdom, more than 40,000 of these basalt pillars are arranged irregularly, stretching for 6 kilometers, which is majestic and spectacular.

This kind of stone pillar is hexagonal, there are also four-sided, five-sided and octagonal, the stone pillar is up to 12 meters high, and the dwarf is more than 6 meters, the height is uneven, staggered, extending to the sea, like a fairyland of ghostly axes.

This terrain can also be found in many places around the world, such as Scotland, South Iceland, and Zhuzi Mountain in Liuhe County, Jiangsu, China, but it is not as spectacular as it is here.

The mountain depends on the sea potential, and the sea borrows the mountain scenery, forming this natural stone road, climbing up the steps, the sea and the sky are the same color. Its significance has long transcended the boundaries of natural landscapes and earth science research.

"The ancients in the East and the West have said something similar, reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles is a good way to increase knowledge...... Ye Chao sighed to Tang Yan beside him.

Actually, there is such a girl around him who can listen to his feelings, and that is also good, so Ye Chao decided that he would not let Tang Yan go in a short time.

Unless, he can find another woman who can replace Xiao Tang Yan and accompany him, then let her go.