ART BY: Basalt on Yerf • 12/04/2003
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Egyptian Basalt Block Statue
Egyptian · Late Period, Dynasty 26, ca. 664-525 B.C.
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The Basalt Columns Battle Map
Add our new battle map to your collection: our 32x22 basalt coast! All that it needs is a memorable monster – what comes to mind, GM? :)
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~ Basalt cups from a set of implements for the Ceremony of Opening the Mouth.
Period: 6th Dynasty
Place of origin: Tomb of Adu I, Dendera, Upper Egypt
Medium: Basalt
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(Lava) Bomb on the Mountain (volcano)
South Sister is Oregon's 3rd tallest peak. It's a stratovolcano 10,363 ft (3,158 m) tall, part of the Three Sisters complex which includes dozens of smaller volcanoes and several older eroded mountains.
The upper 2,000 feet or so (~650 m) is a 20,000 year-old cinder cone, the result of a fire-fountain-type eruption of lava. One of the common features of that style of eruption are lava bombs - chunks of liquid lava flung through the air that cool in streamlined and elongated shapes. The upper flank of the mountain is very steep, and makes for slow climbing through cinders. Slope pitches average 30˚ in this area, and get as high as 58˚!
Perched at random on this slope is probably the largest lava bomb I've ever seen! It's probably about a meter across and shows the streamlined, elongated nature of a bomb very well. I'm not sure why it's still sitting at that precarious location, but up close you can see the vesicular texture of erupted lava (basaltic andesite). This might be classified (yes, there are sub-classifications of lava bombs - geologists love classifications!) as a breadcrust bomb because it looks almost like a crusty bread with cracked crust. These are very common on volcanoes like this. It's hard to see in this picture, but amidst the vesicles (bubbles) in the rock are numerous plagioclase feldspar crystals ~0.5-1 mm across.
Anyway, volcanoes are cool.
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Basalt sculpture of the Taino people of the Caribbean, representing a zemi (deity or another supernatural being), perhaps Maquetaurie Guayaba, lord of the Land of the Dead. Artist unknown; between 800 and 1500. Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.
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basalt cliffs at mills reservation, montclair, nj - vivitar ps 1-2-3 & 400 film - developed at eliz digital & scanned with minolta dimage dual iii
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