{"id":972,"date":"2021-06-17T10:37:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T07:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=972"},"modified":"2021-08-13T09:27:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T06:27:28","slug":"basalt","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/glossary\/basalt\/","title":{"rendered":"Basalt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"glossaryLink\"  aria-describedby=\"tt\"  data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Basalt&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;&amp;lt;!-- wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;Basalt is a finely crystalline, grey, porphyritic basic igneous rock containing essentially plagioclase feldspar and pyroxenes. It is a common extrusive rock forming simple to compound lava flows.&amp;lt;br\/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- \/wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;Basaltic lavas are common in the Northern Kenya Rift volcanic centers and are mostly erupted from a series of aligned fissures and scoria cones.&amp;lt;br\/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- \/wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;&lt;\/div&gt;\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/glossary\/basalt\/\"  target=\"_blank\"  data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'  tabindex='0' role='link'>Basalt<\/a> is a finely crystalline, grey, porphyritic basic igneous rock containing essentially plagioclase feldspar and pyroxenes. It is a common extrusive rock forming simple to compound lava flows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basaltic lavas are common in the Northern Kenya Rift volcanic centers and are mostly erupted from a series of aligned fissures and scoria cones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Basalt&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;&amp;lt;!-- wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;Basalt is a finely crystalline, grey, porphyritic basic igneous rock containing essentially plagioclase feldspar and pyroxenes. It is a common extrusive rock forming simple to compound lava flows.&amp;lt;br\/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- \/wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;Basaltic lavas are common in the Northern Kenya Rift volcanic centers and are mostly erupted from a series of aligned fissures and scoria cones.&amp;lt;br\/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- \/wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/glossary\/basalt\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">Basalt<\/a> is a finely crystalline, grey, porphyritic basic igneous rock containing essentially plagioclase feldspar and pyroxenes. It is a common extrusive rock forming simple to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-972","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/972\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}