The Auckland volcanic field has erupted this type of hot, runny iron-rich lava, and the landscape is dotted with mountains made from basalt and scoria (a red-coloured rock that contains large amounts of iron-rich minerals). Both rock types are excavated for building materials and landscaping.asalt is associated with great rock columns that are found in many places around the Earth, for example, the Organ Pipes in Dunedin or the Giantâs Causeway in Ireland. Basalt magma is formed at high temperatures (around 1,200ÂºC). When it comes out of the volcano, it is hot and liquid.
What It Gets Right. April's season three finale of Vikings on the History Channel left a giant Vikings-size hole in our collective television hearts.What's a fan to do waiting for our favorite Scandinavian heroes and heroines to come back to us?or starters, she calls the characters Danes instead of Vikings, because, she explains, Viking actually means 'pirate' in Old English, which is to say that it is an action or a profession.
The Vikings were peoples from Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) from about 700 AD to about 1100. This period is called the Viking Age. Vikings travelled great distances in their longships, as traders, settlers and warriors.Many of the Vikings were tall and had red or blonde hair and beards. Villages on or near any coast in early medieval Europe lived in great fear of Viking attacks.ome of the countries most affected by Viking raids were Britain, Germany, France, Spain and Italy. The word viking seems to have two uses. The word vikingr, taken from rune stones, meaning a man who has gone with other men on a military journey.