{"id":29856,"date":"2023-08-18T12:13:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T10:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/the-basaltic-columns-of-guspini\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T12:13:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T10:13:23","slug":"the-basaltic-columns-of-guspini","status":"publish","type":"place","link":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/the-basaltic-columns-of-guspini\/","title":{"rendered":"The basaltic columns of Guspini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This unusual <strong>Natural Monument<\/strong> can be found on <strong>Monte C\u00e9pera<\/strong> (also known as <strong><em>Cuccureddu &#8216;e Z\u00e9ppara<\/em><\/strong> or <em><strong>Monte Z\u00e9ppara<\/strong><\/em>). The mountain, 167 m a.s.l., stands in the town of <strong>Guspini<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It features the fracturing of <strong>basalt rock<\/strong> which produced the &#8220;<strong>columns<\/strong>&#8221; that resemble &#8220;<strong>organ pipes<\/strong>&#8220;. This particular formation came about after the magma cooled which rose via an effusive eruption of the marine volcanoes, during plio-quaternary <strong>volcanic events<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The site, previously the subject of mining activity, has an emerging wall of <strong>vertical basaltic prisms<\/strong>, standing about twenty metres high, on the quarry front. While there are other similar basaltic formations on the island, like the <strong>basalti del Gollei<\/strong> or <strong>Cabu Nieddu<\/strong> in Oristano, the specimens of Guspini are particularly significant for their <strong>incredibly precise cut<\/strong> which nature has created on the rocks.<\/p>\n<p>Easily accessible in the town, it was given <strong>Natural Monument<\/strong> status in <strong>1994<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tipologia":[978],"categoria":[1022],"tematica":[1031],"class_list":["post-29856","place","type-place","status-publish","hentry","tipologia-monumento-naturale-en","categoria-naturalistic-asset","tematica-nature"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The basaltic columns of Guspini - Idese<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/the-basaltic-columns-of-guspini\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The basaltic columns of Guspini - Idese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This unusual Natural Monument can be found on Monte C\u00e9pera (also known as Cuccureddu &#8216;e Z\u00e9ppara or Monte Z\u00e9ppara). 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