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• The trail twists and winds its way to the top along the traprock and basalt ridge.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• The Moon’s basalt looks the same as basalt found inside the Earth.
  — Nicole Granucci, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2024
• The floors and some of the walls on the first floor are Gunnison basalt.
  — Michael Lassell, ELLE Decor, 7 Feb. 2011
• And that will put the world between a CO2-infused basalt rock and a hard place.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 5 Nov. 2021
• Its soils range from basalt pebbles and pumice to black ash.
  — Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• The key to the rapid erosion, Bretz said, was the volcanic basalt that forms the bedrock of the Columbia Plateau.
  — Michael Melford, National Geographic, 9 Mar. 2017
• The key to the rapid erosion, Bretz said, was the volcanic basalt that forms the bedrock of the Columbia Plateau.
  — Michael Melford, National Geographic, 9 Mar. 2017
• The acres of raw, blocky basalt look as fresh as the flows shown spilling from Kilauea on the nightly news.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 12 June 2018
• The basalt rock was the result of an eruption from a volcano 8.7 miles away.
  — Fox News, 17 June 2020
• The farm is near a seaside town called Castlerock that is damp to its basalt with the smell of the Atlantic.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• And 600 kilometers to the east, there are more recent basalt seamounts at the bottom of the ocean.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2020
• About 95 percent are carved from the volcanic tuff, but a few are made from basalt.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• The Río Grande carves an 800-foot deep gorge through layers of volcanic basalt flows and ash.
  — latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• The eruptions in Hawaii produce a type of lava called basalt.
  — Emily Johnson, The Conversation, 3 Jan. 2022
• It has been discovered that one kind of stone, basalt, is used.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• The rock is a basalt, which O'Neil's team believes was, at one point, underneath the Earth's first oceans.
  — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2017
• Look for a smooth, oval-shaped stone with fine pores, such as the quartzite or dark basalt cobbles found along most riverbeds.
  — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 24 Apr. 2020
• In the case of Orca, that CO2 soup gets pumped into the layer of basalt below ground.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2022
• Dug out of basalt, a dark volcanic rock, the tunnel was carved in the late 19th century.
  — Greg Brick, Star Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
• They're formed from basalt lava and have become smooth over time.
  — Liz Dufour, USA TODAY, 25 May 2018
• The entryways from Filbert and Union streets now are marked by basalt tiles.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• The basalt would absorb the carbon dioxide and turn it into rock.
  — Eric Niiler, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
• Two different textures of basalt—a.k.a.—lava stone make up the floors.
  — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 14 Oct. 2019
• The island is a craggy basalt rock that juts up from water so rough that boats cannot dock.
  — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2022
• Their idea was that water in the lake could have met with groundwater coming through the basalt.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2018
• Then the machine sends the gas to be pumped 2,000 feet underground into basalt bedrock.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2017
• The team also discovered a second new species: the basalt dwarf gecko.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 10 June 2024
• In our region, our weathered basalt soils tend to be a little too acidic for lilacs.
  — oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2023
• Plains of hardened lava — the mare, or seas, of basalt — cover vast swaths of the surface, mostly on the near side.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• The project consisted of laying 7,000 black basalt stones in a pile outside the Fridericianum museum.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024