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Bilingual glossary of geology


Basalt  Basalte
A fine-grained, mafic igneous rock composed predominantly of ferromagnesian minerals and Ca-rich plagioclase feldspar (adapted from: Plummer et al., 2007).

Themes:
  Igneous rocks

Related words:
  Aphanitic
  Mafic