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The P-500 Bazalt (Russian: П-500 «Базальт»; English: basalt) is a turbojet-powered, supersonic cruise missile used by the Soviet and Russian navies. Its GRAU designation is 4K80 and its NATO reporting name is SS-12 Sandbox.
Developed by OKB-52 MAP (later NPO Mashinostroyeniye), it entered service to replace the SS-N-3 Shaddock. The P-500 Bazalt was first deployed in 1975 on the Soviet aircraft carrier Kiev, and was later added to both the Echo II class submarine and the Juliett class submarine. A version of the P-500 Bazalt with improved guidance and engines is used on the Slava class cruiser. The sixteen launchers dominate the decks of the class.
The P-500 Bazalt has a 550 km range and a payload of 1,000 kg, which allows it to carry a 350 kt nuclear or a 950 kg semi-armor-piercing high explosive warhead. The P-500 Bazalt uses active radar homing for terminal guidance, and can receive mid-course correction from the Tupolev Tu-95RTs Bear D, the Kamov Ka-25K Hormone B and the Kamov Ka-31.
The missiles were intended to be used in salvos; a submarine could launch eight in rapid succession, maintaining control of each through a separate datalink. In flight the group could co-ordinate their actions; one would fly to a higher altitude and use its active radar to search for targets, forwarding this data to the other missiles which remained at low altitude. The missiles were programmed so that half of a salvo would head for a carrier target, with the rest dividing between other ships. If the high flying missile was shot down another from the salvo would automatically pop up to take its place. All of the missiles would switch to active radar for the terminal phase of the attack.
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The ancient chamber of lava cooled slowly allowing it to shape the distinct columnar basalt formation. Lesser formations were quickly eroded by the flowing water leaving a basalt valley and a sharp drop where the chamber ended. The water continues to work away at the basalt.
Prismas Basalticos
Santa María Regla, Hidalgo, MéXICO
Island / Westfjorde
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Basalt from the Jurassic of New Jersey, USA. (public display, Geology Department, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, USA)
Igneous rocks form by the cooling & crystallization of hot, molten rock (magma & lava). If this happens at or near the land surface, or on the seafloor, they are extrusive igneous rocks. If this happens deep underground, they are intrusive igneous rocks. Most igneous rocks have a crystalline texture, but some are clastic, vesicular, frothy, or glassy.
Basalt is a common extrusive igneous rock. It is the dominant rock in Earth’s upper oceanic crust. Black lava rocks seen at famous volcanoes such as Mt. Kilauea in Hawaii and Mt. Etna in Sicily are composed of basalt. Basalt has a mafic chemistry. This refers to igneous rocks that are generally dark-colored, have 45-55% silica (= SiO2 chemistry) (it has also been defined as 45 to 52% silica), are rich in iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg), & calcium (Ca), and are dominated by the minerals plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene.
Basalts have an aphanitic texture (finely crystalline; all or almost all crystals are <1 mm in size), the result of relatively quick cooling of lava. Some basalts are porphyritic or coarsely crystalline if the lava flow took time to cool & solidify (e.g., some Proterozoic basalt lavas in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan's Upper Peninsula).
The sample shown here consists of numerous pieces of "spatter" - blebs of basalt lava spewed from an erupting volcanic vent. Some small volcanoes, called "spatter cones", are entirely composed of this material.
Locality: unrecorded/undisclosed
an der Buntsandstein-Basalt-Grenze im südlichen Vogelsberg, ca 380m ü.M. Es war mitten im Wald, Basalt habe ich leider leider keinen gesehen.
At the Miocene age (26 to 7 million years before now), Vogelsberg was an active volcanic region. The basalt socket is 30x30 miles large, so it could have been quite a mountain.
My geology profs would have been so proud. I darted out of the car at the sight of these behemoths to take some pictures. For a better sense of how huge these bad boys were, joyzgr8 got a nice shot. The river was surprisingly yucky and muddy, but the volcanic byproducts shown here struck me as downright nifty.