flood basalt

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noun

a very extensive lava flow of basaltic composition that has issued from a fissure, often to be found as part of a series of such flows one on top of another, forming a plateauSee fissure eruption

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Words nearby flood basalt

floeberg, flog, flokati, flong, flood, flood basalt, flood control, flooded gum, flooders, floodgate, flooding

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Example sentences from the Web for flood basalt

Brazen cherry-picking of the information in this story inspired a flood of “Bush Was Right All Along!”
Political Memes That Absolutely Must Die in 2015|Asawin Suebsaeng|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Cubans would flood the streets once again ousting the Castro brothers who have now been in power for 55 years.
Cuba Is A Kleptocracy, Not Communist|Romina Ruiz-Goiriena|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
God kills every living thing (non-fish, non-Noah category) in a global flood.
Christian Bale: One Man's Moses Is Another Man's Terrorist|Candida Moss, Joel Baden|December 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In our Capitol, Albany lawmakers enjoy a flood of money, personal accounts, and protection for incumbents against attacks.
Hunger Games Comes to New York State’s Public Schools|Zephyr Teachout|November 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST

When the family was fine, or when a cruel employee at the dam was behind the flood, God was left out of the explanation.
Why Are Millennials Unfriending Organized Religion?|Vlad Chituc|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Various impulses urged him into a pouring flood of words; yet he gave expression to none of them.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
And as a flood hath watered the earth; so shall his wrath inherit the nations, that have not sought after him.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
“Flood”—Cleveland vetoed an unprecedented number of bills during his term.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
It was a rather depressed stock-hand, name of Flood, who blew cigarette smoke out over the brow of Writing-Stone that evening.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Only in the sensational moments of famine, flood or pestilence was a general social effort called forth.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock

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