basaltic magma is fluid. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It is in the great basaltic vase in the baptistery of St. John. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
The rock here is basaltic, and the production of volcanic action. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
Pont-de-la-Baume to Jaujac is lined with countless basaltic prisms. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
On the summit is a tableland bordered with massive basaltic columns. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Of such soils, the first to be considered are those of basaltic origin. From Wordnik.com. [Fruits of Queensland] Reference
At 8 made three-quarters of a mile west to a basaltic hill on left bank. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
How are two miles of quicksand and two of basaltic rock to be gone through?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
Mezillac the road skirts the face of a mountain one mass of basaltic prisms. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
After a quarter of a mile he stopped in the bottom of a deep basaltic gulch. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
There is a round, black basaltic mountain which they call the Hamoumi mountain. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
In the Island of Iceland, also, there are some remarkable ranges of basaltic columns. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
On the south many stone dwellings have been built of the basaltic and cinder-like rooks. From Wordnik.com. [Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262] Reference
The cliffs and jagged pinnacles of basaltic rock around it were several hundred feet high. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
In his previous works he had advocated the aqueous origin of basaltic and other formations. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
The first part of the line traverses a most picturesque country among great basaltic cliffs. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
At 1.9 made one mile north-west up a barren, rocky, basaltic range to rich well-grassed plains. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
It was found to be a basaltic peak 6650 feet above sea-level, but only 1200 or 1500 above its base. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
All basaltic country he had seen previously in other parts of Australia was exceedingly well grassed. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
At 10.50 we made half a mile south-south-west to the top of a range which has a basaltic stony character. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
It was on the edge of the basaltic table overlooking what they termed the Wonsits Tiravu or Antelope Plain. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
Further than that Fisherman would not follow this track in the dark, as it went over a basaltic rocky range. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
The basaltic rocks underlying the stratified attain occasionally the density 3.1, and perhaps a little higher. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Of the former two varieties, basaltic and common have been distinguished, and their composition is given below. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference
You will observe what a singular appearance it presents, with its rows of basaltic columns piled one above another. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
There is a sort of basin, enclosed on three sides by a perpendicular wall of basaltic columns, some eighty feet high. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
This is an ancient city, and here you see towers and ruins standing amidst a wide amphitheatre of basaltic mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
The stream, after rushing through the ravines of Blaise and Queue, tumbles over a hard basaltic precipice 98 ft. high. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Sandy loams are, therefore, our best pineapple soils, though it does well on free loams of basaltic or alluvial origin. From Wordnik.com. [Fruits of Queensland] Reference
Some basaltic soils are occasionally covered with forest in the place of scrub, or a mixture, part scrub and part forest. From Wordnik.com. [Fruits of Queensland] Reference
The basaltic pillars rest upon an undisturbed layer of basaltic conglomerate five feet thick, and that upon a bed of clay. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
Ali Hamid's son took us the next day on fast-trotting camels to visit some graffiti on basaltic rocks about eight miles distant. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
At the lower end of a gap in the basaltic wall, on the left side, there is a round-topped hill, just above the junction of the creek. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
From it proceed numerous branches or arms, composed of basaltic currents congealed into columnar masses in the early days of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Dunstanborough Castle stands upon a bold basaltic rock, and is thirty feet above the sea-level It is supposed to have been built by the. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
At 1.45 made a mile south-west to a small basaltic hill, opposite what appeared the junction of a larger river from the west-south-west. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
This valley was situated between two basaltic ridges, and was watered by two small streams of limpid water, the San Pedro and the Cuitamba. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
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