Definitions for basaltic
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1. basalticadjective

   of or relating to or containing basalt

   "basaltic magma is fluid"

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1. basalticadjective

   Of or pertaining to basalt.

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1. basaltic

   Basalt (UK: ; US: ) is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon. More than 90% of all volcanic rock on Earth is basalt. Rapid-cooling, fine-grained basalt is chemically equivalent to slow-cooling, coarse-grained gabbro. The eruption of basalt lava is observed by geologists at about 20 volcanoes per year. Basalt is also an important rock type on other planetary bodies in the Solar System. For example, the bulk of the plains of Venus, which cover ~80% of the surface, are basaltic; the lunar maria are plains of flood-basaltic lava flows; and basalt is a common rock on the surface of Mars. Molten basalt lava has a low viscosity due to its relatively low silica content (between 45% and 52%), resulting in rapidly moving lava flows that can spread over great areas before cooling and solidifying. Flood basalts are thick sequences of many such flows that can cover hundreds of thousands of square kilometres and constitute the most voluminous of all volcanic formations. Basaltic magmas within Earth are thought to originate from the upper mantle. The chemistry of basalts thus provides clues to processes deep in Earth's interior.

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1. basaltic

   Basaltic refers to anything relating to or characteristic of basalt, a type of dark, dense, fine-grained volcanic rock typically containing minerals like olivine and pyroxene. It is often used to describe properties of this rock, its composition, or other geological phenomena associated with it. The term "basaltic" is often used in fields like geology or volcanology.

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1. Basalticadjective

   pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava

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1. cabalist

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of basaltic in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of basaltic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of basaltic in a Sentence

1. Venus Herrick:

   This was a needle-in-a-haystack search with no guarantee that the needle exists, finding a change that could be clearly confirmed as real was absolutely a surprise. We were pretty certain that Venus is volcanically active, but we didn’t know if eruptions occur every few months, years, once every 10,000 years, or longer. All options could have fit with existing data. Unless we got incredibly lucky, we now know the frequency is every few months or so, similar to the family of Earth’s big basaltic intraplate volcanoes like Hawaii, the Galapagos Islands, Canary Islands, etc.

2. Norihiro Fujito:

   If it's an intercontinental basaltic missile, it will likely reach America's west coast, but Trump would not wait until it reaches his land, so the market started to worry what Trump's next move would be.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=basaltic
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Basaltic
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basaltic
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/basaltic