Basalt is a common grey to black rock. It is pushed out (extruded) by volcanos. The lava is rich in magnesium and iron. It has olivine and pyroxene minerals...

A flood basalt or trap basalt is the result of a giant volcanic eruption or series of eruptions that coats large stretches of land or the ocean floor...

Basalt is a city in Idaho in the United States. This short article about a place or feature in the United States can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia...

The Citroën Basalt is a Subcompact Crossover SUV made by the French car manufacturer Citroën. It was designed for markets in developing regions like India...

Chilcotin Plateau basalts cover a large area in British Columbia. Basaltic lava formed a volcanic plateau running parallel with the Garibaldi Volcanic...

dark, coarse-grained, igneous rocks. They are chemically equivalent to basalt. The rocks are plutonic, formed when molten magma is trapped under the Earth's...

Earth, as well as the world's largest and best-preserved continental flood basalt terrain. This huge area of igneous rock was spewed out in a short time,...

black fine-grained Tertiary basalt, overlying which is a third layer of basalt lava. Slow cooling of the second layer of basalt resulted in an extraordinary...

clinopyroxene (also augite). Nephelinite is dark and may look like basalt in a hand. However, basalt consists mostly of augite and calcic. This short article about...

Earth, it is called lava. Lava cools down to form rocks such as tuff and basalt. Intrusive rocks are made when the magma slowly cools to form rocks under...

there. The county seat and largest city is Blackfoot. Aberdeen Atomic City Basalt Blackfoot Firth Shelley Fort Hall (part) Groveland Moreland Riverside Rockford...

which is typical of flood basalts. Vast volumes of basaltic lava paved over a large expanse of primaeval Siberia in a flood basalt event. Today the area covered...

rock called basalt. Archaeologists think the Olmecs found most of the basalt in the Tuxtlas Mountain range. According to this theory, the basalt heads were...

Light green olivine crystals in peridotite xenoliths in basalt from Arizona Olivine basalt from the Moon, collected in 1971 by the crew of Apollo 15...

The Emeishan Traps is a flood basalt volcanic province in Southwestern China, around Sichuan province. Many igneous rock types can be found there in what...

that contain titanium may be called basaltic hornblende, from the fact that they are usually a constituent of basalt and related rocks. The word hornblende...

The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns. The formation is a result of an ancient volcanic eruption. It is in County...

silicate minerals (materials made of silicon and oxygen). Diorite is between basalt and granite. Diorite is usually grey to dark-grey in color, but it can also...

throughout the summer months. Another attraction is Balancing Rock, a large basalt column that appears to be balancing on its end on the southern shore just...

National Trust for Scotland. It is formed entirely from hexagonally jointed basalt columns. These are part of the same ancient lava flow as the Giant's Causeway...

igneous province, with an area of about 11 million km2. It is mainly of basalt, and formed before the breakup of Pangaea in the Mesozoic Era. It may have...

and the calcium-rich plagioclase feldspars. Common mafic rocks include basalt and gabbro. In terms of chemistry, mafic rocks are on the other side of...

so that it can withstand strong winds. Jeju island is based on basalt. Because basalt has many holes, people had trouble with getting water to drink....

Grímsvötn. It poured out an estimated 42 billion tons or 14 km3 (3.4 cu mi) of basalt lava and clouds of poisonous hydrofluoric acid and sulfur dioxide compounds...

Ladentown basalts. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 94, no. 1, 151-158. Puffer J.H; Block K.A. & Steiner J.C. 2009. Transmission of flood basalts through...

to 10 km (6 mi) thick. It is made of denser, more mafic rocks, such as basalt. The temperature of the crust increases with depth because of geothermal...

of a snowflake Hexagonal floor tessellations (in Rome) Naturally formed basalt columns from Giant's Causeway in Ireland; large masses must cool slowly...

S Bauxite – the main ore of aluminium. It is mostly aluminium oxide. I Basalt – grey/black fine-grained rock from lava which cooled on the surface of...

minerals. Greenstone belts were originally formed of igneous rocks, such as basalt. The belts formed at ancient oceanic spreading centers and in volcanic island...

Index (VEI) of 8—greater than any eruption known in the last 10,000 years. Basaltic tuffs are occur widely. They are found in Skye, Mull, Antrim and other...

above sea level. The rocks which make up ophiolites are an altered form of basalt. The rocks are often green. They are found in the mountain belts such as...

million years old. It is Germany's only shield volcano. It is the largest basalt formation of Central Europe. It consists of many layers which fall downward...

magma, which has a high silica content and lower temperatures compared to basaltic magma. Andesite lava is typically viscous, with a viscosity comparable...

rock made up of clusters of different types of rock (including granite and basalt), covered in sandstone. There are 36 domes covering an area of 21.68 km2...

the mouth of Snowmass Creek. It is on State Highway 82 between Aspen and Basalt. It consists largely of a post office, several commercial businesses, and...

They were formed from various silicate rocks such as granite, gneiss, basalt, syenite, and shale. For bauxite to be created there must be intense weathering...

bubbled-up magma is cooled by frigid seawater to form igneous rock. The rock (basalt) becomes a new part of Earth’s crust. Seafloor spreading occurs along mid-ocean...

islands. One of the uninhabited isles, Staffa, is home to Fingal's Cave and basalt columns. General Register Office for Scotland (28 November 2003) Occasional...

west of Nanango. The range what is left of a shield volcano made from many basalt lava flows about 23-24 million years ago. "The Bunya Mountains" (PDF). Geological...

the Earth that goes down under the Earths crust by 60 km. Kīlauea has a basalt-based lava rock type hot-spot. In May 2018, the volcano erupted causing...

its end came the famous meteorite strike which, with the volcanic flood basalts spewed out in the Deccan Plateau (India), ended so many of the dominant...

the super-continent Pangaea. At the end of the period, the greatest flood basalt lava flows in the Phanerozoic raised world temperatures, and damaged the...

magma reaching the surface either as lava or ejecta (examples pumice and basalt). There are over 700 hundred types of igneous rocks, and they are usually...

et al 2010. Compound-specific carbon isotopes from Earth's largest flood basalt eruptions directly linked to the end-Triassic mass extinction. PNAS 107...

sulfur dioxide and aerosols, which would cause severe cooling. The flood basalts of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) occurred at the Triassic-Jurassic...

broad profile is built up over time by flow after flow of relatively fluid basaltic lava issuing from vents or fissures on the surface of the volcano. Many...

is found in an early basalt road by the Temple of Saturn on the Clivus Capitolinus. It had travertine paving, polygonal basalt blocks, concrete bedding...

King Gnupa and take Hedeby. The Eldgjá volcanic eruption is the largest basalt flood in history. Einsiedeln Abbey is founded. Dong Yuan, Chinese painter...

eastern side. Much of the region is an ancient highland, but there is basaltic bedrock near Cooma and Nimmitabel. This produces the only true chernozems...

as bítlabærinn or "The Beatle Town". The town is situated on plenty of basalt rubble. On a clear day, one can see Snæfellsjökull (which is about 115 km...