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basalt
/bəˈsɔlt/
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What does basalt mean?
noun
- A hard mafic igneous rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, which makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust.
- A type of unglazed pottery.
proper noun
- A home rule municipality of Eagle County and Pitkin County, Colorado.
More meanings (2)
proper noun
- A city and town in Bingham County, Idaho.
- A locality in the Shire of Hepburn, central western Victoria, Australia.
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We were two hours getting to the summit of this peak, which was half porphyry and half basalt.
Winter shows us Matter in its dead form, like the Primary rocks, like granite and basalt--clear but cold and frozen crystal.
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At the Dalles the vast river is jammed together into a long, narrow slot of unknown depth cut sheer down in the basalt.
Then Hurley and I walked along the beach towards the west, climbing through a gap between the cliff and a great detached pillar of basalt.
The porphyries containing vitreous feldspar and hornblende, the phonolite, the greenstone, the amygdaloids, and the basalt, have forms almost as invariable as simple crystallized substances.