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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Belgium
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How come there is a difference between lava meal and basalt meal?
Basalt is lava... |
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Tomatovillian™
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All of them have differing mineral content and are formed in different ways. It is like saying use flour in a recipe to do something. Worth |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: albuquerque
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Basalt will have a lower silica content than most lava, and starts as a solid rock. Lava is more porous and was flowing on the surface before it cooled and solidified.
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Tomatovillian™
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Basalt was or is lava at one time it is called basaltic lava.
All lava started out as a rock. ![]() Worth |
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Tomatovillian™
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OK, basalt was a lava flow but it is much more solid when a thick flow cools like the giants causway in Ireland. (Google it for nice pictures.) It is much more fluid as a lava than more silaceous flows that cool as scoria.
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