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Day 362 : Basalt as a decorative building stone … when basalt is all you have got. This is the tower of Funchal Cathedral (Sé do Funchal), Madeira, the spire was completed in 1518.

Day 361 : A basalt boulder, used as part of a garden feature at our hotel in Madeira.

Day 360 : Basalt lava flows and feeder dykes at Paúl do Mar, southwest Madeira.

Day 359 : Back to the basalts, here in the cliff at the southeast end of Formosa beach, west of Funchal.

Day 358 : To give you a break from all the basalt, here is some split marble panels used as a wall decoration at the Jardim Tropical Monte Palace, Monte, Madeira.

Day 357 : A vesicular basalt cobble in the Rabacal Valley, Madeira.

Day 356 : This is a volcanic breccia used as building stone for the Chapel of St Antony, built in 1715 in Funchal, Madeira.

Day 355 : On the (ex-volcanic) island of Madeira for Christmas and New Year, so expect the remaining images in Rock365 to be mainly basalt. This is part of the basalt outcrop on which the Fortaleza de São Tiago (Fort of St James) is built, on the coast in the …

Day 354 : Stuck at Gatwick Airport all day waiting for a flight delayed by the snow. Only rock I could find is this breccia floor. Apologies for the poor iPhone shot.

Day 353 : A garnet zoisite diopside feldspar reaction skarn in garnet diopside marble from Naran, near Adara, Donegal, Ireland. Keele collection.