Basalts

Armstrong and Aldrin along with pilot Michael Collins brought home with them dark-colored igneous rocks, called basalts, that were some 3.7 billion years old! ❋ Unknown (2009)

In certain dikes, and sometimes also, perhaps, in lavas known as basalts, which have flowed on the surface, the rock when cooling, from the shrinkage which then occurs, has broken in a very regular way, forming hexagonal columns which are more or less divided on their length by joints. ❋ Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1873)

KREEP basalts on the moon are 10-20 ppm Th. There was a single fragment from one of the Apollo missions with 50 ppm Th. The reserve base for terrestrial Th is 1. 2M metric tons, but going to ores as dilute as KREEP basalts would expand the reserve base enormously. ❋ Unknown (2009)

KREEP basalts on the moon are 10-20 ppm Th. There was a single fragment from one of the Apollo missions with 50 ppm Th. We mine PGM's on the Earth as well as copper and gold at 1-5 ppm levels all the time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is interesting that you would say that chemistry does not exist, (magma electrolys), nor any of the other several methods of extracting oxygen from lunar basalts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An ELE, thanks to global thermonuclear war (or, hell, even regional thermonuclear), major impactor, resumed volcanism leading to flood basalts, sea level fluctuations, Jesus, or a combination of any or all. ❋ Unknown (2010)

John W. Shervais, Scott K. Vetter, 2009, High-K alkali basalts of the Western Snake River Plain (Idaho): Abrupt transition from tholeiitic to mildly alkaline plume-derived basalts ❋ Unknown (2010)

Idaho; Transition from rhyolites of the Yellowstone Plateau to basalts of the Snake River ❋ Unknown (2010)

Other partnerships identified geological formations unique to their regions — such as organic-rich shales in the Illinois Basin, or flood basalts in the Columbia River Plateau — as other types of possible reservoirs for CO2 storage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the DOE regional carbon sequestration partnerships is exploring the possibility for using Columbia River Plateau flood basalts for storing CO2; however, investigations are in a preliminary stage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One possible geological reservoir for CO2 storage is the use of major flood basalts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Flood basalts are vast expanses of solidified lava, commonly containing olivine, that erupted over large regions in several locations around the globe. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Large and thick formations of flood basalts occur globally, and many have characteristics — such as high porosity and permeability — that are favorable to storing CO2. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Flood basalts are being explored for their potential to react with CO2 and form solid carbonates in situ (in place). ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Now we know Mercury's surface has an average iron and titanium abundance that is higher than most of us expected, similar to some lunar mare basalts," says David Lawrence, an APL participating mission scientist. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is comparable to the Simen Massif in Ethiopia in its igneous basalts that have been eroded to form precipitous cliffs and deep valleys. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The massif was formed some 75 million years ago of igneous basalts which have eroded into deep gorges and sheer cliffs, some 1,500 m high and in the north escarpment, 35 km long. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Unfossiliferous schists, granites, and basalts (all volcanic rocks) that formed the cores of large mountains he called Primitive. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Volcanic rocks throughout the protected areas are formed of basalts, andesite-basalts, andesites and andesite-dacites. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The McBride basalts form a gently raised dome on the crest of the continental divide, centered on the Undara Crater (elevation of 1,020meters). ❋ Unknown (2008)

1) [The statue] was built on a [basalt] tower. 2) That [vase] cannot break, it's made of basalt. ❋ Jafje (2007)

basaltic- [Broooo] I hit [my nuts] [on accident]! ❋ JaySav551 (2018)

"[stop] basalting me [park ranger] [toby] delcompass" ❋ Izerin2103 (2006)

Hey is that [counter-top] [made] of the [mineral] basalt? ❋ L-dawg (2003)

Person 1: Hey, [do you] know [Nelson]? Person 2: [Do you] mean Basalt? ❋ Caca111 (2019)