basalt lava

collocation in English

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basalt
noun[U]
uk
/ˈbæs.ɒlt/us
/ˈbæs.ɑːlt/
a type of black rock that comes from ...
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lava
noun[U]
uk
/ˈlɑː.və/us
/ˈlɑː.və/
hot liquid rock that comes out of the earth through a volcano, or the solid rock formed when ...
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(Definition ofbasaltandlavafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Each cycle began with flank fissure eruptions of alkalibasaltlava, followed by minor eruptions of basanite to phonotephrite lavas.
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The upper unit, with a minimum thickness of 150 m, displays giant foresets with dips of 20°-40° and passes laterally into abasaltlavaflow to the west.
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The intrusion was created by waves quarrying a softerbasaltlavaflow out of the surrounding granite.
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Feldspar-phyricbasaltlavaflows contain tabular feldspar phenocrysts that range up to in cross section.
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These floodbasaltlavaflows were erupted during a single event that lasted less than five million years.
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It was constructed from 19500yd3 m3 of material on top of a series of olivinebasaltlavaflows.
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Reconstructing floodbasaltlavaflows in three dimensions using terrestrial laser scanning.
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It was formed from abasaltlavadome ten million years ago.
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The range is abasaltlavadome and is no longer volcanically active.
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The bulk of this island is made up of a thick stack of olivine basalt, olivine trachybasalt, and nephelinebasaltlavaflows.
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The modern shoreline is composed ofbasaltlavaflows.
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Such features are generally composed of highly fluidbasaltlava, and can extend for tens or even hundreds of miles across the underlying terrain.
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For example,basaltlavamay become a or phoehoe.
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Between 200,000 and 600,000 years ago, the river eroded a wide canyon which was subsequently partly filled withbasaltlavaflows.
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These volcanics surround eroded remains of thebasaltlavaflows and are composed of the mineral olivine.
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Moltenbasaltlavafrom the volcano flowed all the way down the valleys and eroded them all.
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Dark bands of basalt are found were moltenbasaltlavawas forced through cracks in the bedrock about 60 million years ago.
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Amygdaloid mining consisted of extracting lower-grade strataform orebodies in the amygdaloid zones, the upper portions ofbasaltlavaflows.
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Overlying these lava flows is a layer of friable volcanic ash and tuff that is capped by a thickbasaltlavaflow.
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