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Definition of Basalts
1. basalt [n] - See also: basalt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Basalts
Literary usage of Basalts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"The basalts of Kloch in Steiermark.—The main portions of the Kloch Mountain ...
sheet of the Bohemian Mittelgebirge, gives brief accounts of the basalts, ..."
2. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1903)
"Many of the rocks are grey basalts with the olivine more or less ... In the grey
basalts the groundmass is as a rule holo-crystalline. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"In the vitreous basalts sometimes very few crystallized minerals are observable;
the greater part of the rock is a dark brown glassy material, almost opaque ..."
4. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"It occurs sparingly in some varieties of andesite, and is a characteristic mineral
in basalts. Its composition varies with that of the rock but is not ..."
5. Petrology for Students: An Introduction to the Study of Rocks Under the by Alfred Harker (1897)
"... the rocks characterized by either of the minerals may contain the other as an
accessory. To these types may be added the melilite-basalts,'in which ..."
6. Research in China by Eliot Blackwelder, Bailey Willis, Rufus Harvey Sargent, Friedrich Hirth (1907)
"basalts. basalts are among the commonest of the igneous rocks in central Shantung.
They occur as dikes, sheets, and surface flows associated with the ..."
7. The Gold Fields and Mineral Districts of Victoria: With Notes on the Modes by Robert Brough Smyth (1869)
"Some of the newer basalts, aß well as the older, exhibit a columnar structure.
The following plan (Fig. i ) shows a floor of newer basalt, which is exposed ..."
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