Mull Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
second-largest Inner Hebrides island (after Skye) off the west coast of Scotland
About Mull
Picture a lava plain over 100 miles wide, with no volcanic peaks but continual lava flows, some parts active and bubbling while others cool into a dull black slab a mile thick. Such was the Thulian plateau 60 million years ago as the earth’s crust cracked apart and the Atlantic Ocean widened. The plateau was dragged apart to form portions in Mull, Ulster, Newfoundland, and Iceland where the process continues today. Basalt sea cliffs faced the Atlantic, forming great hexagonal columns at Fingal’s Cave off Mull and at Giant’s Causeway in Ulster. Whatever grew on this impervious surface was scraped bare by successive Ice Ages, the most recent ending some 11,000 years ago. Sea levels rose in the melt and flooded the fault lines, so a much larger proto-Mull became dissected from Staffa, Iona an
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