Image: Basalt
Basalt (11 cm x 10 cm), 2 km south of Luddenham, Liverpool District, New South Wales.
- Photographer:
- Stuart Humphreys
- Rights:
- © Australian Museum
Additional information
Basalt is the most common volcanic rock on Earth. Composed of essential calcic plagioclase and pyroxene, sometimes with olivine, feldspathoids or interstitial quartz.
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