: a dark gray to black dense to fine-grained igneous rock that consists of basic plagioclase, augite, and usually magnetite
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This grand basalt arch faces the Arabian Sea’s edge and is reminiscent of grand European and Indian palaces.
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Shalbha Sarda, Architectural Digest, 4 Mar. 2025
Mare Crisium is a basalt plain that covers about 68,000 square miles (176,000 square kilometers) of the moon, making it about the size of the U.S. state of Missouri, according to NASA.
—Tariq Malik, Space.com, 1 Mar. 2025
Starch residue on flat basalt anvils and small, round pounding rocks also add grist to the argument that the Paleo Diet included heavy portions of plants, rather than the meat-dominant version many people have now adopted as a weight-loss strategy.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
And even now, the ground around the basalt pillar raised in their memory is still scattered with the bones of the livestock that perished with them.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 23 Nov. 2024
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Shalbha Sarda, Architectural Digest, 4 Mar. 2025
Mare Crisium is a basalt plain that covers about 68,000 square miles (176,000 square kilometers) of the moon, making it about the size of the U.S. state of Missouri, according to NASA.
—Tariq Malik, Space.com, 1 Mar. 2025
Starch residue on flat basalt anvils and small, round pounding rocks also add grist to the argument that the Paleo Diet included heavy portions of plants, rather than the meat-dominant version many people have now adopted as a weight-loss strategy.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
And even now, the ground around the basalt pillar raised in their memory is still scattered with the bones of the livestock that perished with them.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 23 Nov. 2024
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“Basalt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/basalt. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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: a dark gray to black usually fine-grained igneous rock
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