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Basalt is a common extrusive igneous rock formed by the rapid cooling of basaltic lava exposed at or very near the surface of Earth
From Late Latin Basaltes (variant of basanites ), very hard stone, which was imported from Ancient Greek Basanites
Durable Rock, Medium Hardness Rock
Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
Glassy, Massive, Porphyritic, Scoriaceous, Vesicular
Black, Brown, Light to Dark Grey
Floor Tiles, Homes, Hotels, Kitchens
As Building Stone, Paving Stone, Garden Decoration, Office Buildings
Arrowheads, As Dimension Stone, Cobblestones, Cutting Tool, Rail Track Ballast, Roadstone
An Oil and Gas Reservoir, Commemorative Tablets, Creating Artwork, Used in aquariums
Alkaline Basalt, Boninite, High Alumina Basalt, Mid Ocean Ridge Basalt (MORB), Tholeiitic Basalt, Basaltic trachyandesite, Mugearite and Shoshonite
Has High structural resistance against erosion and climate, Very fine grained rock
Easter Island in the Polynesian Triangle, Pacific Ocean, Gateway of India in Mumbai, India, Gol Gumbaz in Karnataka, India
Basalt forms when lava reaches the Earth's surface near an active volcano. The temperature of lava is between 1100 to 1250° C when it gets to the surface.
Olivine, Plagioclase, Pyroxene
Aluminium Oxide, CaO, Iron(III) Oxide, FeO, Potassium Oxide, MgO, MnO, Sodium Oxide, Phosphorus Pentoxide, Silicon Dioxide, Titanium Dioxide
Heat Resistant, Pressure Resistant, Wear Resistant
Conglomerate is a sedimentary rock which forms from rounded gravel and boulder sized clasts which are cemented together in a matrix
From Latin conglomeratus, to roll together, i.e. from com together + glomerare to gather into a ball, from glomus (genitive glomeris) a ball
Coarse Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
Beige, Black, Brown, Buff, Light to Dark Grey, Orange, Rust, White, Yellow
Decorative Aggregates, Floor Tiles, Homes
As Building Stone, As Facing Stone, Garden Decoration, Office Buildings, Roof Tiles
As Dimension Stone, Cement Manufacture, Construction Aggregate, for Road Aggregate, Roadstone
Artifacts, Monuments, Sculpture, Small Figurines
Cemetery Markers, In aquifers, Tombstones
Orthoconglomerate and Paraconglomerate
Clasts are smooth to touch, Is one of the oldest rock, Matrix variable
Conglomerate forms where sediments consisting mainly of pebble and cobble-size clasts at least two millimeters in diameter starts accumulating.
Burial Metamorphism, Cataclastic Metamorphism, Regional Metamorphism
Chemical Erosion, Coastal Erosion
China, India, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Uzbekistan
Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa
Austria, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
New South Wales, New Zealand