basaltic
adjEtymology From basalt + -ic.
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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, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt Even the beneficient rainfall had failed to attract animal life to the basaltic waste, and the genius of silence seemed to brood over all.
- The island gains its geothermal heat from basaltic magma in the fissure systems of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.2000, Tony Waltham, “Geyser watching”, in Geology Today, volume 16, number 3, page 97:
- Derived terms
- basaltic magma, nonbasaltic