Definition of "basalts" [basalts]

• Plural form of basalt. (noun)

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• "Armstrong and Aldrin along with pilot Michael Collins brought home with them dark-colored igneous rocks, called basalts, that were some 3.7 billion years old!"
• "In certain dikes, and sometimes also, perhaps, in lavas known as basalts, which have flowed on the surface, the rock when cooling, from the shrinkage which then occurs, has broken in a very regular way, forming hexagonal columns which are more or less divided on their length by joints."
• "An ELE, thanks to global thermonuclear war (or, hell, even regional thermonuclear), major impactor, resumed volcanism leading to flood basalts, sea level fluctuations, Jesus, or a combination of any or all."