![]() ![]() 2023 The Mesha Stele, a three-foot-tall black basalt monument dating to nearly 3,000 years ago, bears a 34-line inscription in Moabite, a language closely related to ancient Hebrew-the longest such engraving ever found in the area of modern-day Israel and Jordan. Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023 Isolated patches of vegetation dot exposed granite and basalt. Clifford Prince King, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 July 2021 Sprinkled among the skate aesthetic was work from Owens a sofa that resembled a vampire’s crypt or panic room, a black basalt bench, a white marble table that could have been fresh from a cult sacrifice. Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022 Operations in basalt, such as the one by Carbfix, would add further capacity. ![]() ![]() Recent Examples on the Web Earth’s continents are mosaics of old granite magma chambers, frozen lakes of basalt, ancient limestone seafloors, the coals of bygone swamps, the sandstones of erstwhile deserts and beaches, and so on-all lathed by erosion, each lending its own isotopic flavor to the local environment. ![]()
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