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What does basalt mean?

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  1. (mineralogy) A hard mafic igneous rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, it makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust.
  2. A type of unglazed pottery.
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A serpentine flow meanders through formations of smooth pahoehoe lava and rough aa lava, the same forms common in basalt lavas.
Eastwards, the basalt flows become thinner and interfinger with red lacustrine or sabkha siltstones deposited in the deeper parts.
Here the rock formed when lava flowed into a freshwater lagoon and quickly altered into spilite basalt.
Soils on basalt had a higher pH and were higher in most micronutrients, but lower in Iron, than soils on arkose.
Here, spectacularly large groups of scolecite, heulandite, apophyllite, and associated minerals occurred in cavities in flood basalt.
It can be found in fissure veins and brecciated amygdaloidal basalt lodes but not in the conglomerate lodes.

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