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metabasalts

metabasalts is the plural of metabasalt.

Meaning of metabasalt

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...

Questions about metabasalts

What is metabasalts the plural of?
Metabasalts is the plural of metabasalt.

Words near metabasalts in the dictionary

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

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