Geologists exploring the curved basalt column formations on the Isle of Staffa, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, 1822. Prismatic forms that imitate beams in the hull of a ship. Basaltes courbes de l'ile de Staffa. Copperplate engraving by Milanese painter Gaetano Riboldi from Scipion Breislak’s Traite sur la Structure Exterieure du Globe, Treatise on the Exterior Structure of the Globe, Jean-Pierre Giegler, Milan, 1822.

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