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 Translation for 'basalt' from English to Finnish
NOUN   basalt | -
geol.
basaltti {noun}
basalt
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Translation for 'basalt' from English to Finnish

basalt
basaltti {noun}geol.
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Usage Examples English
  • A basalt fan structure is a basalt formation composed of columnar jointed basalt columns that have slumped into a fan shape.
  • The footwall to the Widgiemooltha Komatiite is the Mt Edwards Basalt, which is a low to medium MgO mafic extrusive rock, metamorphosed to upper greenschist facies.
  • Besides phonolites, the deeply weathered ankaramatic basalt is part of the oldest exposed rocks in the region.
  • Wairere Boulders is a nature park providing walkways through boulders of basalt, derived by erosion of one of these older basalt flows that used to be included in the Horeke Basalt and are now included in the Kerikeri Volcanic Group.
  • The lava of The Cinders is basalt of late Holocene age.

  • The basalt rustyhood is only known from a single small area near Derrinallum with two populations on western basalt plains grassland in south-western Victoria.
  • Some rare ignimbrites are andesitic, and may even be formed from volatile saturated basalt, where the ignimbrite would have the geochemistry of a normal basalt.
  • Geologically, Lookout Mountain is composed of Tertiary basalt flows, Tertiary sediments and basalt breccia.
  • Unlike most of the Spessart, which consists mainly of Buntsandstein, the Beilstein is an outcropping of basalt.
  • In the south east, basalt from Sandy Bay dates from [...].

  • The Columbia River Basalt Group is the youngest, smallest and one of the best-preserved continental flood basalt province on Earth, covering over [...] mainly eastern Oregon and Washington, western Idaho, and part of northern Nevada.
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