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[[Image:Haxagon Pool (Brekhat Ha'Meshushim).jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Hexagon Pool]] |
[[Image:Haxagon Pool (Brekhat Ha'Meshushim).jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Hexagon Pool in Israel]] |
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The '''Hexagon Pools''' ({{lang-he|בריכת המשושים}}, Breichat HaMeshushim) is the name of a natural pool, part of the Hexagons River situated in the southern-central area of the [[Golan Heights]]. |
The '''Hexagon Pools''' ({{lang-he|בריכת המשושים}}, Breichat HaMeshushim) is the name of a natural pool, part of the Hexagons River situated in the southern-central area of the [[Golan Heights]], in northern Israel. |
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The Hexagon river cascade in a waterfall and creates the pool. The walls of the pool consists of columns of basalt shaped in angular formations, that looks like it was man-made, and from them come the name for the pool (and river). The columns reaches a height of about 5 meters (~16'), and most of them are of five to six sides. The diameter of each columns is between 30 and 40 centimeters (11.8"-15.7"). |
The Hexagon river cascade in a waterfall and creates the pool. The walls of the pool consists of columns of basalt shaped in angular formations, that looks like it was man-made, and from them come the name for the pool (and river). The columns reaches a height of about 5 meters (~16'), and most of them are of five to six sides. The diameter of each columns is between 30 and 40 centimeters (11.8"-15.7"). |
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The Hexagon Pools (Hebrew: בריכת המשושים, Breichat HaMeshushim) is the name of a natural pool, part of the Hexagons River situated in the southern-central area of the Golan Heights, in northern Israel.
The Hexagon river cascade in a waterfall and creates the pool. The walls of the pool consists of columns of basalt shaped in angular formations, that looks like it was man-made, and from them come the name for the pool (and river). The columns reaches a height of about 5 meters (~16'), and most of them are of five to six sides. The diameter of each columns is between 30 and 40 centimeters (11.8"-15.7").
The Basalt columns were created as streams of lava cooled down after a volcanic eruption. The angular shape is formed the surface of the lava cools and shrinks, while the internal lava is still hot and moving. The temperature differences between the other (cooled) and inner (hot) parts of the lava, causes the external crust (that was formed from the cooling) to crack, from which the angular shape is developed (more often as hexagons than as polygons with any other specific number of sides).
Wall of basalt columns exist in other places in the Golan Heights, such as, the Hexagon river, and the Zavitan river (roughly means "Angular river").
Similar Structures in the World
Columnar Basalt is a common volcanic occurrence, and basal columns form in a varied range of sizes (faster cooling lava creates smaller poles). Notable sites where one can find such formations includes the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland; the islands of southern Scotland that are close to the Giant's Causeway: Canna, Eigg, and Muck; the northern part of the Isle of Skye; the Isle of Mull and the beach section of mainland Great Britain across from it in Morvern; the island of Staffa that became famous thanks to Fingal's Cave, the entrance of which is decorated with basalt columnar formations. Jusangjeolli in Korea; Garni canyon in Armenia; the Cyclopean Isles near Sicily; the Devil's Postpile National Monument in California; the east side of the Oregon's Cascades; the Devil's Tower National Monument in Wyoming, and in other sites around the world.