Assolia Dongar near Chandwad town - Bombay- Agra road Recent Lava tube/channel seen coming out from

the summit of the hill

Base of an exposed lava tube near Sutarwadi.

Hard reddend top is protecting the sinuous ridge Mesa seen

Upward Converging

Columnar Joint - Sikri Village

Roof of the Lava Channel near

Sikri village (aboiut 30 meters acropss)

Nodular texture comprising converging laths of plagioclase toward the cengter.

Texture developed in basalts that cooled slowly witin insulated lava tubes.

Ghrishneswar Temple

near Aurangabad

Base of Lava Tube -

agglutinated material near Sutarwadi

Assolia Dongar western side.

Horizontally disposed lava flows

showing vertical margins

Assolia Dongar  Amanth (see photo 1)

40 meters fall giant ropes of lava

Church built of indurated basalt

Brickwork of indurated basalt

Indurated reddish brown basalt forming the levee portions and paleo-lava channels.

The rock is used for archeological monuments

War Bonnet Structure

Remnent of of an arched roof of a lava tube - Sikri village

Explosive vocanism in Tarapur area north of Bombay

Angular vocanic bomb embedded in Obsidian - flow near Longdi/Bhaguda area South Saurashtra (Fuji film pack)

Gently dipping lava sequence in Sothern Saurashtra, Rajula

Rhyolite bombs in obsidian flow near Longdi village

Many rhyolite bombs in obsidian flows

Many rhyolite bombs in obsidian flows (Fuji Film pack)

Mixed up flow with bombs - some broken - others of different sizes

Khandoba Temple in Satara Villages

(near Aurangabad city) See beautiful carvings

War bonnet structure within

Aá flows near Koyna

Outer lee portion

Concentric columnar joints

Highly indurated reddish agglutinated basal portion of a lava tube - near Sutarwadi village

Gently meandering levee portion of paleo Lava Channel in Varmbori Gunjala area north of Ahmedabad

Bottom portion of an ancient lava channel of leak tube exposed in Ahmadnagar district

Concentric joints associated with lava tubes in Deccan

volcanic country