BASALTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does basaltic mean? 

• BASALTIC (adjective)
  The adjective BASALTIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or containing basalt

  Familiarity information: BASALTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASALTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or containing basalt

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

basaltic magma is fluid

Pertainym:

basalt (the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene)

Derivation:

basalt (the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene)

 Context examples 

There was a pale-green foreground of feathery vegetation, which sloped upwards and ended in a line of cliffs dark red in color, and curiously ribbed like some basaltic formations which I have seen.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These forces result in geological activity, most notably volcanoes that emit umbrella-like plumes of sulfur dioxide gas that can extend up to 300 miles (480 kilometers) above Io and produce extensive basaltic lava fields that can flow for hundreds of miles.

(New Research Reveals Fluctuating Atmosphere of Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon, NASA)

These cliffs, I may remark, are basaltic, and therefore plutonic.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Their height, as we approached them, seemed to me in some places to be greater than he had stated—running up in parts to at least a thousand feet—and they were curiously striated, in a manner which is, I believe, characteristic of basaltic upheavals.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)