basaltic

IPA: bʌsˈɔɫtɪk

Examples of "basaltic" in Sentences

Roughly ninety percent of the lava in the monument is basaltic.
Activity of the early Pleistocene erupted basaltic andesite or effusive basalt.
Scientists are also baffled by the fact that this particular type of basaltic lava is only known to exist in Iceland.
The chemical engineering community sees absolutely no problem with producing metals and oxygen from lunar basaltic feedstock.
Vertical tree trunks preserved in rock strata are evidence of continental type volcanos (as opposed to basaltic oceanic crustal volcanos).
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.
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.
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.
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.