In the Deccan in India great basaltic lava fields are known; and Etna and Vesuvius emit basaltic rocks.
The minerals of basaltic rocks have a fairly uniform character throughout the whole group.
Minerals of the felspathoid group occur in a large number of basaltic rocks; nepheline and leucite are the most common, but haüyne is occasionally present.
This designation is still used as a general term for the whole suite of basaltic rocks by many geologists and travellers (e.
Basaltic lavas are frequently spongy or pumiceous, especially near their surfaces; and, in course of time, the steam cavities become filled with secondary minerals such as calcite, chlorite and zeolites.
In other basaltic rocks no glassy material appears, but the whole mass is thoroughly crystallized; rocks of this nature are generally known to British petrologists as dolerites (q.
Another characteristic of this group of rocks is the perfection with which many of them show prismatic or columnar jointing, a structure often called "basaltic jointing.
Priamidai, the patronymic of the descendants of Priam.
Theramenes, an Athenian philosopher and general of the time of Alcibiades.
But her brave long walls were destroyed, destroyed to sound of flute and lyre, wrecked to the kordax step, and laid in the dust to the mocking laughter of a Comedy-chorus.
The news of the fall of Troy was brought to Mycenae by means of beacon fires, so fire was the messenger.
Song in Pippa Passes, which is sung by the girl as she passes the house of Luigi.
Line for line and word for word we have the tragedy in English as the Greeks had it in their own tongue.
Euthukles, the husband of Balaustion, whom she met first at Syracuse.
Their flocks and herds were removed into the islands on the coasts, where, so long as Athens was mistress of the sea, they would be in comparative safety.
Mr. Browning has quite accurately, though unsparingly, exposed his impious teaching in his poem Johannes Agricola in Meditation (q.
If the times were gloomy, so much the more need of a little honest diversion.
Its principal source is at Tell el-Qadi, where it rises out of a basaltic mound whose summit is crowned by the ruins of Laish.
The High Force is a truly grand waterfall, where the whole river tosses over a huge precipice in the black basaltic cliff.
Hence we clambered across stone walls and bogs for several miles to Sewing Shields, where Arthur and Guinevere and all their knights lie asleep in a basaltic cavern.
Water of rather an improved description was obtained at Suggadera, under basaltic rock, stained green by carbonate of copper.
Subsequently new basaltic eruptions either raised these deposits to their present height, or pierced them through in their original sites, both cases occurring on the same locality.
Abbo, at 120 degrees, percolates from the centre of a steep bank of soft red sandstone, covering basaltic wacke, through an artificial spout inserted for the convenience of drinking the waters.
After a march of three miles on the 22nd, over a stony table-land thickly strewed with the never-ending basaltic boulders, the caravan entered the territory of the Danakil tribe Woema, under the uncle and father of Mohammad Ali.
But from the summit of an adjacent basaltic knoll, which was ascended towards the close of day, there burst upon the delighted gaze a prospect more than ever alluring of the Abyssinian Alps.
If, for instance, it should be conceded that the granitic or basaltic strata were once in a state of fusion, there is no reason why we should not call in the aid of supposition to produce a rapid refrigeration.
The basaltic or trap phenomena lead to the conclusion that such upheavings and subversions were not confined to one epoch of the antediluvian world, but that, coeval with its birth, they pervaded the whole period of its duration.
During this protracted period, eruptions of molten rock occurred of enormous extent, producing the Basaltic formation which covers the Chalk in the north of Ireland, and in some of the Hebrides.
In this he found a group of green lights burning upon a kind of basaltic altar, and a bell-rope from a belfry overhead hanging down into the centre of the place.
In that region outwellings of highly liquid rock came from fissures and spread widely over the surface as veritable inundations, which on cooling became black, basaltic rock, but without forming mountains or craters.
Certain of the valleys carved during a portion of the earlier stage of erosion were subsequently filled by lava-floods, which buried gold-bearing gravel beneath thick layers of basaltic rock.
The basaltic hills appeared to turn to the south-east, and we now entered the sandstone country.
Steered east over an undulating grassy country of basalticformation with occasional sandstone ridges; the soil was generally good, but very stony.
We then entered a basaltic plain, richly grassed and less stony than usual.
The general character of this part of the country is good and well suited for stock, though not equal to the basaltic country to the eastward on the Victoria.
The country to the north of the creek consisted of very rough and rocky hills of red sandstone, extremely barren in appearance, while to the south it rose into the basaltic plain which forms Roe's Downs.
These creeks appear to rise in a steep range of sandstone hills which bound the basaltic plains to the west, about two miles from our track.
Descending the hill, steered south-east, crossed a finebasaltic plain, and entered open brigalow scrub, and at 2.
Our course was now between the creek and the steep rocky edge of the basaltic plain, which was too rugged for the horses to ascend till 11.
The basaltic rock of this plain is not of great thickness, as the sandstone rose in a few spots above its surface and formed small islands covered with coarse vegetation, surrounded by the open grassy plain.
Victoria; the country was level and well grassed for several miles back, and then rose into the sandstone range to the south and basaltic hills to the east.
We then ascended to a basaltic plain, and altered the course to south-east; at 8.
Large basaltic stone considerably chipped off from pounding hard substances, grooved near the center, both ends quite blunt; probably used as a pounding stone.
Large, heavy basaltic hammer and axe with groove around the body near the hammer end; about seven inches long.
An almost square axe of basaltic rock, grooved on the sides, flat on top.
Basaltic maul, grooved in the middle like the preceding.
Small basaltic hammer and axe with groove near the large end.
Flat basaltic boulder, grooved near the center, straight on the back, and tapering above and below the groove.
The engineer, after having explored the wall at a certain height horizontally, fastened the lamp to the end of an oar, and again surveyed the basaltic wall at a greater elevation.
Although the tide was at present low, no beach could be seen, and the waves, thickened by the volcanic dust, beat upon the basaltic rocks.
But, although they remained silent, Top, not being troubled with feelings of this sort, uttered barks which were repeated by the thousand echoes of the basaltic cliff.
Independently of the fact that it would be impossible to get it out of this cavern, whose entrance is now closed by the uprising of the basaltic rocks, Captain Nemo's wish is that it shall be buried with him.
At this place the breadth of the sheet of water measured nearly 350 feet, and beyond the dazzling center could be seen an enormous basaltic wall, blocking up any issue on that side.
One reason for this may have been that in addition to the large basaltic prisms, the ground was thickly covered with a layer of smaller and broken stones to which time and the action of the weather had given a comparatively smooth surface.
There was a pale-green foreground of feathery vegetation, which sloped upwards and ended in a line of cliffs dark red in color, and curiously ribbed like some basaltic formations which I have seen.
The country generally is of sandstone or granite formation, with occasional trachyte and basaltic ranges.
There is a round, black basaltic mountain which they call the Hamoumi mountain.
Ali Hamid's son took us the next day on fast-trotting camels to visit some graffiti on basalticrocks about eight miles distant.
In the dim light the basaltic columnar cliffs looked like grooved ebony.
When to this I add that it was composed of basaltic rocks and received the deposit of such an extent of elevated basaltic land I need scarcely add that it was highly fertile.
We had traversed a most beautiful country this morning, composed of basaltic rocks and fine alluvial soil, whilst, from the size and number of the streams, it must be as well watered as any region in the world.
We this morning made an attempt to get clear of the marshes by following a south-easterly course, and were thus forced up into a range of lofty basaltic mountains, the slopes of which were of the richest description.
Towards noon however the weather cleared a little, and in a fine interval I mounted a high range of basaltic hills which lay about a mile and a half to the westward.
That we could not get off this terrace was the more provoking from seeing, immediately on the other side of the stream, one of those wide open basaltic valleys which I have so often mentioned.
This morning we resumed our journey, crossing a succession of basaltic valleys.
Here the basaltic wall was over 80 feet in height, hemming them in from the west; on some parts during the day it closed in on both sides.
That contained between its south bank and the river, the greatest width of which is not more than three miles, is a basaltic plateau, terminating in precipitous banks on the river, averaging 50 feet in perpendicular height.
The banks of the river which border the basaltic plain are very high and steep on both sides.
Beyond this they emerged on to a basaltic plain, timbered with box and bloodwood, and so stony as to render the walking very severe for the horses.
Lewis and Stewart walked from the sandy bay up a steep basaltic cliff which sloped right down to the beach.
The basaltic rock ceased and an open grassy incline was before them covered with myrtle and cactus bushes; and further off a thick wood, to the east of which rose a hill sparsely dotted with olive trees.
That is to say, the basaltic and red trap-rocks burst through the great cracks made, at that time, in the surface of the disturbed earth.
On the walls, trees were trained exactly in the shape of a candelabrum with two branches; others had stems and branches adjusted obliquely, like basaltic strata.
As Goethe said, this America has no middle ages to conquer, but he was mistaken in saying that it had no basaltic strata, for it is now just coming out of its own peculiar condition of feudalism.
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