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metabasalt

metabasalt noun: an amphibolite produced from a basalt by metamorphism.

Noun

metabasalt (plural metabasalts)

  1. An amphibolite produced from a basalt by metamorphism.
    • The abundant basalt and metabasalt clasts in sandstone and conglomerate of the Jansen Creek Member were most likely derived from the locally metamorphosed basalt in the Metchosin Volcanics that crops out along the southern margin of Vancouver Island1980, P.D. Snavely, Jr. with A.R. Niem, N.S. MacLeod, J.E. Pearl, and W.W. Rau, “Makah Formation: A Deep-Marginal-Basin Sequence of Late Eocene and Oligocene Age in the Northwestern Olympic...

Forms of metabasalt

pluralmetabasalts

Origin of metabasalt

From meta- + basalt.

Questions about metabasalt

What does metabasalt mean?
Metabasalt means an amphibolite produced from a basalt by metamorphism.
What part of speech is metabasalt?
Metabasalt is a noun.
What is the plural of metabasalt?
The plural of metabasalt is metabasalts.

Words near metabasalt in the dictionary

  1. metabarcoders
  2. metabarcodes
  3. metabarcoding
  4. metabarrier
  5. metabarriers
  6. metabasalt
  7. metabasaltic
  8. metabasalts
  9. metabase
  10. metabases
  11. metabasidia

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