(n.) A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated.
(n.) An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Alamy The Devils Postpile, near Mammoth Lakes on the east side of Yosemite, looks as if it might have been created by some satanic sculptor, but really it's just one of the world's best examples of columnar basalt, a similar geological feature to the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland.
(2) The aerial shots along the route – taking in the crenellated ruins of Dunluce Castle, the vertiginous Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, the basalt stacks of the Giant's Causeway, and the seaside villages of Ballycastle, Cushendun, Cushendall and Carnlough – will be a pleasant surprise for viewers who have an entirely different image of Northern Ireland.
(3) Dotted across 2,000 square kilometres of hills and villages on a basalt plateau in western India sit more than 800 turbines - generating more than 1,000 megawatts of electricity.
(4) The second half of our ride was 118km back down to Belfast, but we optimistically took a detour from the Giro route to marvel at something the peloton won't get to see – the Giant's Causeway, one of the world's natural wonders, with its thousands of perfectly-formed, hexagonal basalt columns stretching out along the coast.
(5) These plants produce basalt wool, sag wool and glass fibres used in industrial and building insulating materials and in cement and mortar additives and as a free insulating material.
(6) In the sedimentary rock areas calcium and magnesium concentrations were high; the magnesium-to-calcium ratio in these areas was between those of the basalt and granite areas.
(7) For the Azores you pack a cagoule and sunglasses, your swimming gear and walking shoes, for you’re never more than a few minutes from a dramatic basalt seashore or an alluring grassy pathway.
(8) In order to eliminate asbestos adverse effect on workers' health it was necessary to use mineral rayon, primarily basalt fibre, instead of asbestos.
(9) Josiah also created Black Basalt, a fine black porcelain, which enabled him to produce copies of the newly excavated Etruscan pottery from Italy.
(10) There was no credible data on the differences between the groups exposed to various types of basalt fibre.
(11) It's unlikely I'd have developed a lifelong addiction to live music had I not seen Blur tearing the roof off a Midlands bog venue in 1991, nor ever taken Arctic Monkeys seriously if I hadn't witnessed Birmingham's Carling Bar Academy try to bounce itself into the basaltic layer in 2005.
(12) • Pinnacles links condors recovery programme , climbing , camping , caves Devils Postpile national monument Basalt columns at Mammoth Lake, Devil's Postpile national monument.
(13) It was in England that Sigurdsson would really bloom, becoming in the process a frontiersman for the great Icelandic experiment, that frankly quite bonkers investment in youth football enacted around the turn of the millennium by this spiky lump of mid-Atlantic basalt, and expressed most fully in the minor miracle of Euro 2016 qualification .
(14) The Postpile's 18m columns were created when a mass of basaltic lava cooled at a relatively uniform rate.
(15) The same observation was valid, when the asbestos exposed group was compared with the groups exposed to asbestos substitutes (basalt and glass fibres).
(16) Basalt (Kilauea-lki) and chondrite (Orgueil) have been found to behave similarly.
(17) Endemic elephantiasis of the lower legs in Ethiopia, which reaches a maximum of 86-7 per 1,000 adults in affected areas, is related to the distribution of red clay soil derived from volcanic rocks, particularly basalt.
(18) The influence of the nutrient status is clearly manifest in the humus form (raw humus in the case of quartz porphyry, mull-resembling moder in the case of basalt), but scarcely in the chemical and microbiological properties of the Of subhorizon.
(19) The park is named after the Siete Tazas (seven cups), a series of pools in a narrow gorge that were carved out of black basalt rock by the Claro river.
(20) The occurrence at high altitude (over 1,200 metres) is noted and the predominance of basalt or basalt-like lava in each case is considered significant.
Igneous
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, having the nature of, fire; containing fire; resembling fire; as, an igneous appearance.
(a.) Resulting from, or produced by, the action of fire; as, lavas and basalt are igneous rocks.
Example Sentences:
(1) The gamma-ray absorbed dose rates in air above igneous rocks generally vary with their silica contents, and with the exception of shale, sedimentary rocks have lower K:U and K:Th ratios than most igneous rocks.
(2) Igneous activity is especially characterised by oscillating conditions.
(3) It was concluded that Hungarian rock-soil systems, especially the acid igneous rocks and the widely distributed young sediments (loess and sand formations) with most of the agricultural activity, are low in Se, and the mean serum Se level of the blood samples were also low.
(4) The aluminosilicate minerals of igneous and metamorphic rocks are mostly unstable in earth-surface weathering conditions.
(5) Seen from above, the concentric rings of hills and valleys make a near perfect circle, with different rings composed of different types of igneous rock.
(6) These fungi were incubated with the following iron-containing minerals: augite, hornblende, biotite, magnetite, hematite, and the igneous rock granodiorite.
(7) Uranium-rich igneous rock is dissolved by groundwater that emerges to the surface in nine hot springs (which are used for bathing).
(8) The phosphorus was locked in an igneous lithosphere as orthophosphate.
(9) The primitive Earth was highly deficient in the total available phosphorus until a sufficient quantity of phosphorus weathered from the igneous rocks in which it was entrapped.
(10) A natural, igneous fluorapatite was found to be even more effective in nucleotide synthesis than the more soluble hydroxylapatite.
(11) With the advent of the first primitive rainstorms the slow endless process of liberating the phosphorus from the igneous rock strata had begun.