Suppose strange stone pillars along Australia's coast

The southern coast of Tasmania state in Australia impresses with adjacent stone columns rising 300m above the sea.

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Geologists call the strange stone column structure on the southern coast of Tasmania, which is dolomite with a long, six-edge shape.

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Dolerite forms when molten rock is pushed up from the ground to rapidly crystallize to form crystals in the rock.At proper cold temperatures, the stone shrinks and cracks.

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The cracks allow the inside of the rock to be cooled and result in more cracks.Finally, a large rock formed with long fissures and 5 or 6 sides.

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Dolerite geological columns are from a few centimeters to a few meters in diameter.

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Tasmanian dolerite columns seem to have formed from the Jurassic period, about 185 million years ago.This is the time when volcanoes cover one third of this state.

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These strange stone pillars are in fact a wall of continuous structures that span more than 4,000km from Australia to Antarctica.

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The cylindrical stone structure is not uncommon and visitors can find similar structures in hundreds of locations around the world such as Giant's Causeway in Ireland, Los Organos in Spain .