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Tourists Are Stuffing Coins Into the Cracks of the Giant’s Causeway, Damaging the Iconic Site in Northern Ireland
Authorities are urging visitors to stop wedging pocket change between the basalt columns, which are cracking and crumbling as ...
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8 Facts About The Giant’s Causeway
On the north coast of Northern Ireland sits an otherworldly rock formation known as the Giant’s Causeway. There, thousands of hexagonal stone columns of various heights rise out of the North ...
Stop Shoving Coins Into the Giant’s Causeway
From Parisian bridges to Rome's Trevi Fountain, tourists love leaving behind mementos—but in Northern Ireland, they're ...
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Unravelling the mystery of Giant's Causeway: Striking stones in Northern Ireland were formed in a matter of DAYS - and not over thousands of years as previously thought, study ...
Every year, millions of tourists flock to Northern Ireland to visit Giant's Causeway - an unusual formation of around 40,000 hexagonal stone columns descending gently into the sea. Theories on the ...
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Physicists crack mystery of the spectacular stones of the Giant’s Causeway
Craic on: was the Giant's Causeway formed by collective cracking? The formation of the spectacular hexagonal stone columns at Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway and similar structures around the world can be ...
Giant’s Causeway visitors causing damage to ancient landscape by wedging coins into cracks
The Giant’s Causeway formed between 50 and 60 million years ago when molten basalt erupted through chalk beds and formed a ...
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The Hexagon Shapes the Jewelry World
The hexagon. The six-side geometric shape has recently been appearing in jewels through either patterns fashioned in precious metal or stones cut into hexagons. Natalie Wansbrough-Jones ...