Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to basalt; formed of or containing basalt; of the nature of or resembling basalt: as, basaltic lava.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as
basaltic lava.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
basalt .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or containing basalt
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Examples
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In this he found a group of green lights burning upon a kind of basaltic altar, and a bell-rope from a belfry overhead hanging down into the centre of the place.
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The chain of granite mountains continued to our right, parallel with the road, which was overspread with silex, and farther on we met with a kind of basaltic tufa, forming low hills covered with sand.
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The chain of granite mountains continued to our right, parallel with the road, which was overspread with silex, and farther on we met with a kind of basaltic tufa, forming low hills covered with sand.
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The chain of granite mountains continued to our right, parallel with the road, which was overspread with silex, and farther on we met with a kind of basaltic tufa, forming low hills covered with sand.
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land John Lewis Burckhardt 1800
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In these most ancient parts of Mars, we have found that running liquid water altered the original mineral structures in some of the basaltic, olivine-bearing rocks into carbonate-bearing rocks.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Adrian Brown -- The Time for Mars is Now SETI Institute 2010
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The chemical engineering community sees absolutely no problem with producing metals and oxygen from lunar basaltic feedstock.
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Vertical tree trunks preserved in rock strata are evidence of continental type volcanos (as opposed to basaltic oceanic crustal volcanos).
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There is strong geological evidence that the only "dry land" prior to the early Archean was scattered basaltic islands (sitting over mantle plume "hot spots") similar to the Hawaiian islands.
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Vertical tree trunks preserved in rock strata are evidence of continental type volcanos (as opposed to basaltic oceanic crustal volcanos).
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Scientists are also baffled by the fact that this particular type of basaltic lava is only known to exist in Iceland.
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