How to Use basalt in a Sentence

basalt

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  • And that will put the world between a CO2-infused basalt rock and a hard place.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The basalt rock was the result of an eruption from a volcano 8.7 miles away.
    — Fox News, 17 June 2020
  • The farm is near a seaside town called Castlerock that is damp to its basalt with the smell of the Atlantic.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • And 600 kilometers to the east, there are more recent basalt seamounts at the bottom of the ocean.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2020
  • About 95 percent are carved from the volcanic tuff, but a few are made from basalt.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The eruptions in Hawaii produce a type of lava called basalt.
    — Emily Johnson, The Conversation, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Look for a smooth, oval-shaped stone with fine pores, such as the quartzite or dark basalt cobbles found along most riverbeds.
    — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 24 Apr. 2020
  • In the case of Orca, that CO2 soup gets pumped into the layer of basalt below ground.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Dug out of basalt, a dark volcanic rock, the tunnel was carved in the late 19th century.
    — Greg Brick, Star Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The entryways from Filbert and Union streets now are marked by basalt tiles.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The basalt would absorb the carbon dioxide and turn it into rock.
    — Eric Niiler, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Two different textures of basalt—a.k.a.—lava stone make up the floors.
    — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The island is a craggy basalt rock that juts up from water so rough that boats cannot dock.
    — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2022
  • In our region, our weathered basalt soils tend to be a little too acidic for lilacs.
    — oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Plains of hardened lava — the mare, or seas, of basalt — cover vast swaths of the surface, mostly on the near side.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • The design echoes the colors of Santa Cruz, the village nearby, with black basalt-like sinks and white walls.
    — Trish Lorenz, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The beach, which is known as Short Sands or Shorty’s, sits in a stunning cove framed by volcanic basalt and sandstone cliffs.
    — oregonlive, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Sculpted out of enormous basalt boulders, the heads are believed to date as far back as 900 BC.
    — Nili Blanck, Travel + Leisure, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The restaurant’s communal table was made from a 17-ton slab of basalt stone.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Tucked between the jagged basalt peaks and moraines is No Name Lake, a turquoise gem popping out from the surrounding black rock.
    — Haley Nelson | , oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The lunar Maria, the dark regions of the Moon, were formed when the lunar basins were filled by basalt, a volcanic rock, some 3.9 to 3.2 billion years ago.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021
  • The basalt is also volcanic in origin, but was extruded on land rather than in the sea.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Highlights include in-room basalt gas fireplaces in each of its 77 rooms and rooftop hot tubs to warm you up after a day on the slopes.
    — Julia Eskins, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The site, with its bright-red, basalt-rich, volcanic soils, was bound to produce distinctive wines.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 June 2021
  • The firm buys basalt from mines in Arizona and a mineral called anorthosite from ones in Canada to make its blends of lunar dust.
    — Eric Niiler, Wired, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Later this month, the platform will start to rotate while the arm pumps out a gooey concoction of basalt and biopolymers.
    — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The landscaped central courtyard surrounds a basalt slab set with a pool, sundeck, and fire pit.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Each one started as a fragment of something else—a tiny fossil, a scrap of basalt, a shark’s tooth—that drifted down to the plain at the very bottom of the ocean.
    — WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Sinkholes in the Yucatán mark the sacred cacao groves of the Maya, and exploding fruits were found under the basalt flows of the Deccan Traps.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • Almost 2,000 years ago, oozy, slow-moving basalt lava trickled out of a vent on the south side of Mount St. Helens.
    — Scott Hewitt, oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2022

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