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A shallow stream meanders across a sandy pan; a doleritic intrusion of volcanic bedrock lies just beneath the surface and infuses the water with minerals that the elephants need.

From The New Yorker • May 4, 2015

Lavas chiefly doleritic, poured out from A after the axis or focus B was spent, and before the origin of the Val dell Bove. gg.

From Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions by Rodwell, G. F.

Other dikes of more modern doleritic lava radiate from the present crater.

From Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions by Rodwell, G. F.

It is composed of a prehistoric grey labradorite, and of doleritic lava.

From Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions by Rodwell, G. F.

Conversion of dolomite and granite into argillaceous schist, by contact with basaltic and doleritic rocks.

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von