Basalt Island information

Basalt Island or Fo Shek Chau (Chinese: 火石洲; Sidney Lau: Foh2 Sek6 Jau1) is an island of Hong Kong and administratively part of Sai Kung District. Together...

Basalt (UK: /ˈbæsɔːlt, -əlt/; US: /bəˈsɔːlt, ˈbeɪsɔːlt/) is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity...

island basalt (OIB) is a volcanic rock, usually basaltic in composition, erupted in oceans away from tectonic plate boundaries. Although ocean island...

November 2007). "Basalt Island Crash Investigation" (PDF). Retrieved 10 August 2015. "Circumstances of the Crash on Balsalt Island, Flight originated...

Tengchong Basalt Island area, Hong Kong; including High Island Reservoir area, Hong Kong; although the High Island Reservoir is not basalt but rhyolitic...

associated with volcanic activity, such as oceanic islands, continental rifts and volcanic fields. Alkali basalt is characterized by relatively high alkali (Na2O...

A flood basalt (or plateau basalt) is the result of a giant volcanic eruption or series of eruptions that covers large stretches of land or the ocean...

olivine-rich picrite basalts that occur with the more common tholeiitic basalts of Kīlauea and other volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands are the result of...

represents the dominant rock type in island arcs. The average composition of the continental crust is andesitic. Along with basalts, andesites are a component of...

be a separate island until volcanic material from Terevaka united it to the larger whole. The island is dominated by hawaiite and basalt flows which are...

December 1948, a China National Aviation Corporation Douglas DC-4 struck Basalt Island after a descent through clouds. 35 were killed. On 24 February 1949...

continental flood basalts, oceanic plateaus, large dike swarms (the eroded roots of a volcanic province), and volcanic rifted margins. Mafic basalt sea floors...

(574 ft) basalt island located south of "Grande Anse du Diamant" before arriving from the south at Fort-de-France, the main port of the Caribbean island of...

365 Operation Basalt was a small British raid conducted during World War II on Sark during the German occupation of the Channel Islands. The objective...

Island (film), 2016 Great Diamond Island, Maine Little Diamond Island, Maine Diamond Rock, Martinique, a basalt island This disambiguation page lists articles...

flood basalts in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Other famous places include the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, Fingal's Cave on the island of Staffa...

stave or pillar island) is an island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The Vikings gave it this name as its columnar basalt reminded them...

Types of trap rock include basalt, peridotite, diabase, and gabbro. Trap is also used to refer to flood (plateau) basalts, such as the Deccan Traps and...

China National Aviation Corporation when he died in plane crash on Basalt Island in Hong Kong in 1948. He was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu province on August...

surges of volcanic ash that mantled neighbouring Motutapu Island from alkaline olivine basalt eruptives sourced from the north cone area. The later part...

The island formed by volcanic eruptions approximately two million years ago, during the Pleistocene epoch. The island consists chiefly of basalt and lava...

subtropical and mild, with little seasonal differentiation. The island is the eroded remnant of a basaltic volcano active around 2.3 to 3 million years ago, with...

or so small islands, one of which (Tern Island) contains an airport and human habitations. Gardner Pinnacles is made up of two small basalt peaks, the...

Sai Kung Conic Island (飯甑洲) – Sai Kung Douglas Rock (德己利士礁) – Islands Flat Island (銀洲, Ngan Chau) – Tai Po Fo Shek Chau (火石洲, Basalt Island) – Sai Kung Fo...