Basalt Synonyms

bə-sôlt, bāsôlt
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. pahoehoe
  2. porphyry
  3. rubblestone
  4. sarsen
  5. tufa

Words Related to Basalt

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Basalt Sentence Examples

  • The soil, of decomposed basalt, is wonderfully fertile.

  • Such rocks as basalt, diorite and trachyte are comparatively rare.

  • Large areas are overlain with trachyte, basalt, obsidian, tuff and pumice.

  • In most cases the eruptions appear to be of Pliocene or later date, but in the extreme north some of the basalt seems to belong to the Miocene period.

  • It is formed of basalt, trachyte and phonolite, and the soil is very fertile.

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