basaltic

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English basalt Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English basaltic From basalt + -ic.

1. Of or pertaining to basalt.

   “1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter I, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt Even the beneficient rainfall had failed to attract animal life to the basaltic waste, and the genius of silence seemed to brood over all.”

   “The island gains its geothermal heat from basaltic magma in the fissure systems of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.”