Basalt is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BASALT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an igneous volcanic rock
• a dark fine-grained volcanic rock that sometimes displays a columnar structure, typically composed largely of plagioclase with pyroxene and olivine.
• a kind of black stoneware developed by Josiah Wedgwood.
• dark volcanic rock
• 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.
• An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.
• the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a volcanic rock

Words related to BASALT

basaltic12 basalts9

Words that contain BASALT

basalts9 basaltes10 basaltic12 basaltine11 basaltines12 basaltware15 basaltwares16

How to use BASALT in a sentence

• It is a column of basalt seven feet high and about two feet wide at the base, from which it narrows slightly, until near the top it is reduced by three steps.
• The valley floor was basalt, from the lava flow of volcanoes in ages past.
• Large blocks of basalt enable one to climb down into the valley, the bottom of which is covered with dense growths.
• To the south a range of basalt and sandstone hills intercepted the view.
• The country for five to ten miles to the east of our track appeared open and grassy, basalt being the prevailing rock.
• The trap or basalt was much decomposed, and contained fragments of lower rocks.
• At noon basalt appeared covering the limestone and sandstone.
• They seem to melt and to escape inspection, yet they remain fixed on the memory as firmly as forms in carven basalt.
• Around them the water was black as basalt, only that now and again a spark of light was struck by the faint lifting of the current against the immovable hulls.
• After passing across this range we again descended rapidly into the low country, the face of which is much broken by conical hills composed of basalt.
• A sitting statue in black basalt, of the size of life, representing an early king, which Mr.
• This range stretches out into a long wooded ridge crowned by cone-shaped peaks of basalt.
• Sometimes we fish along the shore, and, then enjoy a luncheon in the grotto, whilst the basalt columns vibrate like harps to the breeze.
• It is volcanic ash, disintegrated basalt, this great fruit-country to the right of the range.
• On the summit of Brandon Hill stands a great stone circle, a ring of huge basalt blocks dominating the rich valleys and the surrounding plain.
• Here and there stray blocks, numerous debris of basalt and pumice-stone, were met with.
• Great blocks of that basalt, which, according to Bischof, takes three hundred and fifty millions of years to cool, strewed the plain, very confused in some places.
• The basalt pillars, fitted one into the other, measured from forty to fifty feet in height, and the water, calm in spite of the tumult outside, washed their base.
• It was granite, basalt, porphyry, with life and movement.
• It was built upon a conical peak of basalt, and was surrounded by four deep valleys, one on each side, another in front, and the fourth in the rear.
• Redder than blood, a blistering sun-ball was losing itself behind far, iron hills of black basalt.
• She saw that she was lying on the great slab of basalt which overhung the Moon Rock.
• The rock is a fine-grained basalt, exposed only on the shore, the remainder of the island being a series of sandhills covered with low shrubs and luxuriant grass growing in tufts.
• In them are found pottery vases, flint celts, axes and hammers of grey granite, basalt, and jade.

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