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.
While the term Viking is used in a general way to describe the people of Scandinavia during the medieval period, it's really a name for a profession -- it's like if we called all Spanish or French people Pirates. The Scandinavians were also explorers, farmers, fishermen and merchants -- not just Vikings. Indeed, the people who are usually referred to as Vikings were actually made up of several different groups, including the Danes, the Swedes and the Norwegians, who were themselves often broken into small petty kingdoms.