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Speciman Basalt Columns 36" - 48" Wide
Landscaping Basalt Columns 36" -  48"
Basalt Columns 36" - 48"
 
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$34.99 will be added for each palletized or bagged material
Price Per Foot $499.99
Inflation Fighter Sale $399.99
Savings: $100.00
Material Type: Basalt
Level Of Experience Required: Boulders over 150 lbs are best handled by experienced landscape staff
Typical Time Required: Budget 1 Man Hours per boulder and finish work, but placement time varies according to size and location
Equipment Needed: Contractor grade wheelbarrow, or heavy duty upright dolly, hand tools, garden hose
Additional Materials Needed: Decomposed granite, gravel or small stones or rocks to accent the boulder. Cement or mortar if part of complex masonry project

Quantity in Stock:250

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Product Code: 195478BLD24X36
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Speciman Basalt Columns 36" - 48" Wide


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Speciman Basalt Columns 36" - 48" Wide
How is it possible for it to form such perfect columns, many of which look like they are hexagonal cylinders? It’s due to a physical process that can happen in melted lava rock as it cools.

Imagine a huge flow of hot, liquid magma that is settling. The outer layer is starting to cool and darken in color from orange to black. As it cools, it needs to shrink a bit, as hot materials usually take up more space than cooler ones. Because of this shrinking, the surface of the lava starts to crack. But this cracking isn’t always random.

In this case, the lava starts to crack into regular shapes. Those shapes are forming because of how the lava cools. It starts at different spots called “centers.” If those centers are evenly spaced, the forces that pull inward toward the centers end up creating different chunks of cooling lava that are hexagonal

When they form long, straight columns, these are called colonnade. When they have more irregular shapes that look like they’ve been pushed or morphed, it’s called entablature.
And rock columns also aren't limited to Earth... rock columns have even been found on Mars.

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