Columnar jointing

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Columnar jointing

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Columnar jointing - geological structure where sets of intersecting closely spaced fractures, referred to as joints, result in the formation of a regular array of polygonal prisms, or columns. Article “Columnar jointing” in English Wikipedia has 59.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 18 references and 21 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Japanese.

In June 2025 the article “Columnar jointing” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Columnar jointing”, its content was written by 54 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 163 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 228 times in English Wikipedia and cited 809 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #50788 in July 2020
  • Global: #54381 in February 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #177298 in May 2019
  • Global: #101181 in October 2023

There are 13 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Chinese (zh)
柱狀節理
64.9522
2English (en)
Columnar jointing
59.8889
3Portuguese (pt)
Disjunção prismática
45.0668
4Swedish (sv)
Pelarförklyftning
43.4285
5Spanish (es)
Disyunción columnar
33.2038
6Japanese (ja)
柱状節理
30.1239
7Catalan (ca)
Disjunció columnar
28.254
8Russian (ru)
Столбчатая отдельность
24.0788
9Czech (cs)
Sloupcová odlučnost
17.3756
10Polish (pl)
Cios słupowy
15.1207
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Columnar jointing" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Columnar jointing
406 936
2Korean (ko)
주상절리
282 672
3Japanese (ja)
柱状節理
176 825
4Spanish (es)
Disyunción columnar
58 185
5Polish (pl)
Cios słupowy
53 019
6Portuguese (pt)
Disjunção prismática
42 963
7Russian (ru)
Столбчатая отдельность
33 839
8Czech (cs)
Sloupcová odlučnost
18 811
9Swedish (sv)
Pelarförklyftning
11 782
10Chinese (zh)
柱狀節理
7 555
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Columnar jointing" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Japanese (ja)
柱状節理
2 965
2English (en)
Columnar jointing
2 943
3Korean (ko)
주상절리
1 038
4Russian (ru)
Столбчатая отдельность
405
5Chinese (zh)
柱狀節理
231
6Portuguese (pt)
Disjunção prismática
208
7Polish (pl)
Cios słupowy
202
8Spanish (es)
Disyunción columnar
153
9Czech (cs)
Sloupcová odlučnost
75
10Swedish (sv)
Pelarförklyftning
57
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Columnar jointing" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Columnar jointing
54
2Spanish (es)
Disyunción columnar
19
3Korean (ko)
주상절리
18
4Czech (cs)
Sloupcová odlučnost
13
5Portuguese (pt)
Disjunção prismática
13
6Russian (ru)
Столбчатая отдельность
13
7Polish (pl)
Cios słupowy
10
8Swedish (sv)
Pelarförklyftning
7
9Catalan (ca)
Disjunció columnar
4
10Ukrainian (uk)
Стовпчаста окремість
4
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Columnar jointing" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Russian (ru)
Столбчатая отдельность
2
2English (en)
Columnar jointing
1
3Arabic (ar)
فواصل عمدانية
0
4Catalan (ca)
Disjunció columnar
0
5Czech (cs)
Sloupcová odlučnost
0
6Spanish (es)
Disyunción columnar
0
7Japanese (ja)
柱状節理
0
8Korean (ko)
주상절리
0
9Polish (pl)
Cios słupowy
0
10Portuguese (pt)
Disjunção prismática
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Columnar jointing" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Columnar jointing
228
2Japanese (ja)
柱状節理
198
3Portuguese (pt)
Disjunção prismática
89
4Korean (ko)
주상절리
58
5Arabic (ar)
فواصل عمدانية
56
6Czech (cs)
Sloupcová odlučnost
41
7Spanish (es)
Disyunción columnar
39
8Polish (pl)
Cios słupowy
33
9Chinese (zh)
柱狀節理
23
10Ukrainian (uk)
Стовпчаста окремість
16
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
فواصل عمدانية
caCatalan
Disjunció columnar
csCzech
Sloupcová odlučnost
enEnglish
Columnar jointing
esSpanish
Disyunción columnar
jaJapanese
柱状節理
koKorean
주상절리
plPolish
Cios słupowy
ptPortuguese
Disjunção prismática
ruRussian
Столбчатая отдельность
svSwedish
Pelarförklyftning
ukUkrainian
Стовпчаста окремість
zhChinese
柱狀節理

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#177298
05.2019
Global:
#101181
10.2023

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#50788
07.2020
Global:
#54381
02.2023

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Columnar jointing from Wikipedia articles about Basalt, List of places with columnar jointed volcanics, Igneous rock, Giants Causeway and Devils Tower. Whereas reading the article about Columnar jointing people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Giants Causeway, Sounkyo, Devils Tower, Joint and Fingals Cave.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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