Basalt is a commonly used term in geology; it helps to know basic geology vocabulary.

Geology Term

Basalt has a fine-grained texture; it may help to visualize its smooth surface.

Physical Characteristics

Use words that evoke imagery, like 'Dark, igneous rock' to describe basalt's appearance.

Visual Imagery

 You can see beautiful bubblegum corals. There are brittle stars growing on these corals. Those are things that look like tentacles coming out of corals. There are corals made of different forms of calcium carbonate growing off the basalt of this massive undersea mountain, and the dark sort of stuff, those are fossilized corals,

The secrets I find on...

 was rewarded with an extremely rare occurrence of a large and strikingly beautiful creature but it all happened so quick that I never got a glimpse of it it's comfort under those rocks and simply disappeared I did not think much about it then but a week later I was back in a row basalt in these images

Spotting the camel...

 to the lava that followed many of Hawaii's worst earthquakes. The lava on Hawaii is made of basalt, which once cooled, is highly fertile. Within a couple of decades of terrible eruptions, Islanders would have seen vibrant green life thriving on new peninsulas made of lava.

The scientific origins...

 a vast plateau of basalt slabs and columns called the Giant’s Causeway stretches into the ocean. The scientific explanation for this is that it’s the result of molten lava contracting and fracturing as it cooled in the wake of a volcanic eruption.

The Irish myth of the...

 Trickling down through gaps in soil and rock, water flows through sandstone, limestone, and basalt, picking up a microscopic compound called silicon dioxide. This silica-enriched water enters the voids inside pieces of volcanic rock,

The most colorful...

 that big basalt rock just happen to block our view that is stee colors are a little bit so faded I've managed to take up much supplies as we can oh so it might look a little bit black and white to you we tried to use in the infrared

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 It uses plentiful green geothermal energy to capture carbon dioxide, dissolve it in water and inject it into porous basalt deep underground, where it chemically reacts to create a stable solid that can stay there for centuries.

Africa's Great Carbon...

 which uses these hot, deep pools to produce electricity. First, engineers drill a well several kilometers into permeable rock like sandstone or basalt. As the hot, highly pressurized groundwater flows into the well,

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 liquid rock when it collides with liquid water they begin by melting 800 pounds of basalt rock it start out as quarter-inch gravel and when we see you later and dump it out it'll be lava that

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 science and mythology people flock each year to see the Giant's Causeway the Emerald Isle's first world heritage site for some this honeycomb pattern of 40,000 basalt

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