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basalt |
a dark, heavy rock that is created by lava flowing from volcanoes. |
eruption |
When there is an eruption, something breaks open and material comes out. If there is an eruption of a volcano, there is an explosion inside it. The mountain breaks open and lava pours out. |
lava |
Lava is very hot, melted rock that comes out of a mountain called a volcano. The lava flows down the sides of the volcano to the ground. Sometimes it flows across land and into the sea. Later, lava gets cool and becomes new land. |
magma |
hot, liquid matter beneath the earth's surface that cools to form igneous rock. Magma that reaches the earth's surface, as when a volcano erupts, is called lava. |
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