metabasalt

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noun

An amphibolite produced from a basalt by metamorphism.

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Meanings

nounmetabasalt (plural metabasalts)

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 Island

    1980, 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 Peninsula, Washington”, in Geological Survey Professional Paper, volume 1124, page 24

Origin

From meta- + basalt.

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Translations

Finnish metabasaltti
  • metabasalttian amphibolite produced from a basalt by metamorphism
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APA

metabasalt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metabasalt

MLA

“metabasalt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metabasalt. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “metabasalt,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metabasalt.

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