basaltic

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Etymology

basalt + -ic

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basaltic

  1. Of or pertaining to basalt.
    • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter I,
      Even the beneficient rainfall had failed to attract animal life to the basaltic waste, and the genius of silence seemed to brood over all.
    • 2000, Tony Waltham, “Geyser watching”, in Geology Today, volume 16, number 3, page 97:
      The island gains its geothermal heat from basaltic magma in the fissure systems of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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