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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.

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  • adjective of or relating to or containing basalt

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Examples

  • 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.

    The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 1906

  • 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 1822

  • 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 1822

  • 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

  • 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

  • The chemical engineering community sees absolutely no problem with producing metals and oxygen from lunar basaltic feedstock.

    Shuttle-C - NASA Watch 2009

  • Vertical tree trunks preserved in rock strata are evidence of continental type volcanos (as opposed to basaltic oceanic crustal volcanos).

    Man made global warming? No way! 2009

  • 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.

    Ancient Predator Revealed! 2009

  • Vertical tree trunks preserved in rock strata are evidence of continental type volcanos (as opposed to basaltic oceanic crustal volcanos).

    Man made global warming? No way! 2009

  • Scientists are also baffled by the fact that this particular type of basaltic lava is only known to exist in Iceland.

    365 tomorrows » featured writer : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

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