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How do tremendous pressures and high temperatures affect basalt?
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Melting of wet basalt can produce?
Steam under tremendous pressures, possibly leading to explosive volcanic eruptions as it rises and expands.
Why is so much basaltic magma erupted along mid-ocean ridges?
Lowered pressures decrease the temperatures at which basalt magma can partially melt from a rising plume of mantle peridotite.
How does metamorphism affect basalt?
it changes it in to amphibolite and schist
What is the connection between high temperatures measured at ocean ridges and the formation of basalt ridges?
realate the high tempertures measured at the mid-ocean to the formation of basalt at the ridges
How does basalt turn to sandstone?
Basalt is eroded to sand by wind and rain. The sand accumulates in ocean sediment and experiences great pressures over time. After a sufficiently long time, and uplift reveals what had been sand and has become sandstone.
What is the most common extrusive igneous rock?
Basalt
How do volcanoes affect the production of land masses?
It affects the land by creating new rocks and plants such as basalt and diamonds.
What is an alkali basalt?
An alkali basalt is a particularly alkaline variety of basalt.
Where is the Basalt Rld in Basalt located?
The address of the Basalt Rld is: 14 Midland Ave, Basalt, 81621 8305
What is a sentence using the word 'basalt'?
That rock was not Basalt, it was different. This is not a diamond, just a normal Basalt.
What basalt boulders mean?
Basalt is a very abundant volcanic rock. A basalt boulder is simply a large chunk of basalt rock.
What is the dark colored rock the makes up most of the oceanic crust?
Basalt
