Resolution Guyot is a guyot in the underwater Mid-Pacific Mountains in the Pacific Ocean. It is a circular flat mountain, rising 500 metres above the seafloor to a depth of about 1,320 metres, with a
A beach and shallow water, Cook Islands
Spaceborne image of mudflats and tidal channels on present-day Long Island, Bahamas; the former morphology of Resolution Guyot has been compared to that of the present-day Bahamas.
Vegetated island on Suwarrow
Basalt ; US: buh-SALT is an aphanitic extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moo
QAPF diagram with basalt/andesite field highlighted in yellow. Basalt is distinguished from andesite by SiO2 < 52%.
Vesicular basalt at Sunset Crater, Arizona. US quarter (24mm) for scale.
Columnar basalt flows in Yellowstone National Park, US