Editing Basalt (section)

=== Etymology ===
The word "basalt" is ultimately derived from [[Late Latin]] {{Lang|la|basaltes}}, a misspelling of Latin {{Lang|la|basanites}} "very [[Hardness|hard]] stone", which was imported from [[Ancient Greek]] {{Lang|grc|βασανίτης}} ({{Transliteration|grc|basanites}}), from {{Lang|grc|βάσανος}} (''{{Transliteration|grc|basanos}}'', "[[touchstone (assaying tool)|touchstone]]").<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tietz |first1=O. |last2=Büchner |first2=J. |title=The origin of the term 'basalt' |journal=Journal of Geosciences |date=29 December 2018 |pages=295–298 |doi=10.3190/jgeosci.273|doi-access=free }}</ref> The modern petrological term ''basalt'', describing a particular composition of [[lava]]-derived rock, became standard because of its use by [[Georgius Agricola]] in 1546, in his work ''[[De Natura Fossilium]]''. Agricola applied the term "basalt" to the volcanic black rock beneath the [[Bishop of Dresden-Meissen|Bishop of Meissen's]] [[Stolpen#Burg Stolpen|Stolpen castle]], believing it to be the same as the "basaniten" described by [[Pliny the Elder]] in AD&nbsp;77 in {{Lang|la|[[Natural History (Pliny)|Naturalis Historiae]]}}.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tietz |first1=Olaf |last2=Büchner |first2=Joerg |title=The origin of the term 'basalt' |journal=Journal of Geosciences |date=2018 |volume=63 |issue=4 |pages=295–298 |doi=10.3190/jgeosci.273 |url=http://www.jgeosci.org/content/jgeosci.273_tietz.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428204828/http://www.jgeosci.org/content/jgeosci.273_tietz.pdf |archive-date=2019-04-28 |url-status=live |access-date=19 August 2020|doi-access=free }}</ref>