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Basaltic

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ba·salt  (b-sôlt, bsôlt)
n.
1. A hard, dense, dark volcanic rock composed chiefly of plagioclase, pyroxene, and olivine, and often having a glassy appearance.
2. A kind of hard unglazed pottery.
[Latin basalts, alteration of basants, touchstone, from Greek basants (lithos), from basanos, of Egyptian origin.]
ba·saltic (-sôltk) adj.
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Adj.1.basaltic - of or relating to or containing basalt; "basaltic magma is fluid"


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The banks of the river, for a considerable distance, both above and below the falls, have a volcanic character: masses of basaltic rock are piled one upon another; the water makes its way through their broken chasms, boiling through narrow channels, or pitching in beautiful cascades over ridges of basaltic columns.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
Nothing could be more weird than the appearance of these seemingly basaltic summits; they stood out in fantastic profile against the sombre sky, and the beholder might have fancied them to be the legendary ruins of some vast city of the middle ages, such as the icebergs of the polar seas sometimes mimic them in nights of gloom.
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context
There was a pale-green foreground of feathery vegetation, which sloped upwards and ended in a line of cliffs dark red in color, and curiously ribbed like some basaltic formations which I have seen.
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