About This Lesson
How can two places more than 4,000 miles apart, and with such different tectonic settings, have such similar landforms? To answer that question, let’s take a virtual field trip to the Columns of the Giants—the geologic formation pictured in the second photo, and located in the central Sierra Nevada Mountains. In this resource, you will learn how to decipher some of the physical processes that shaped the land structure, or “geomorphology,” of parts of California, which will help you better understand how Iceland’s distinct landscape might have also formed.
