{"id":182,"date":"2015-05-07T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2015-05-07T06:00:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T13:00:56","slug":"huasca-de-ocampo-mexico-march-25-2007-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Huasca de Ocampo, Mexico, March 25, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BasaltPrisms5Mk03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BasaltPrisms5Mk03.jpg\" alt=\"Basalt Prisms 5 Mk03\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BasaltPrisms5Mk03.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BasaltPrisms5Mk03-600x388.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BasaltPrisms5Mk03-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Year:<\/strong> 2007 (March 25, 2007) <\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#8243; x 8.5&#8243;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media:<\/strong> Canon\u00ae Pro Platinum High Gloss Photo Paper<\/p>\n<p><strong>Printers:<\/strong> Canon\u00ae PIXMA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Color<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Art:<\/strong> Photo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Luc Paquin<\/p>\n<p><strong>Huasca de Ocampo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prismas Bas\u00e1lticos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Basalt is a dark, fine-grained, basic (low silica) igneous rock, often extruded as molten lava from volcanic fissures. Its low silica content means it can flow easily, often building up over the years to form large plateaus. As the basaltic lava cools, it contracts and solidifies. An extensive network of cracks often develop in basalt, which may extend many meters deep. These cracks tend to leave columns between them which are roughly hexagonal (6-sided) in shape. <\/p>\n<p>The best known location in Mexico to see basalt columns is about an hour\u2019s drive north of Mexico City, at Santa Mar\u00eda Regla, in the state of Hidalgo. These columns, attractively located on the side of a canyon, with a waterfall tumbling over some of them, were visited by the famous Prussian scientist\/geographer Alexander von Humboldt, during his exploration of Mexico in 1803-04. Some individual columns are 40 meters tall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Luc<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year: 2007 (March 25, 2007) 11&#8243; x 8.5&#8243; Media: Canon\u00ae Pro Platinum High Gloss Photo Paper Printers: Canon\u00ae PIXMA Color Art: Photo Artist: Luc Paquin Huasca de Ocampo Prismas Bas\u00e1lticos Basalt is a dark, fine-grained, basic (low silica) igneous rock, often extruded as molten lava from volcanic fissures. Its low silica content means it can &#8230; <a title=\"Huasca de Ocampo, Mexico, March 25, 2007\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/?p=182\" aria-label=\"Read more about Huasca de Ocampo, Mexico, March 25, 2007\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucpaquin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}