Mass of prismatic lava in the Triponzio Valley, Italy. Pile of thin quadrangular columns or prism sticks. Near the bridge below Roccarespampani, Viterbo, central Italy. Amas des laves prismatiques de la Vallee de Triponzio dans le territoire de Viterbe. Copperplate engraving by Gaetano Riboldi after Giuseppe Rinelli directed by Giambattaista Brocchi 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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