Icelandic Pillow lava is basalt and it is rough, mostly cubic, sharp volcanic rock with angular grains and closely set voids.

From ancient rock to a modern product

Icelandic Basalt is a product from recent volcanic resources providing unique benefits for today’s technologies. It is used as a component in various products – and in a variety of applications, as fibers, powders, solids, and also in its natural state.

Icelandic Lava - Volcanic Rock

Icelandic Pillow Lava forms in under water volcanic eruptions, with a basaltic composition and forms a pillow shape texture. The size of individual pillows varies from 10 cm up to several meters. The Eden Pillow Lava is uniquely suitable for insulation, filtering, fillers and sealers and as granular sand or potting soil, or as a binder for structural foundations because of its generic stackability. The Pillow Lava grains size can be customized for buyers.

Iceland - a volcanic reserve

Iceland sits on the border of the Mid-Atlantic tectonic plates. Recent eruptions aside, the rock is relatively young in geological terms dating back 800,000 years.

Pillow lava

Physical / Chemical Characteristics

SiO2
47.3%
Al2O3
12.9%
TiO2
1.6%
Fe2O3
12.0%
FeO
10.8%
CaO
11.6%
MgO
12.0%
Na2O
2.0%
K2O
0.7%
P2O5
0.2%
MnO
0.2%
Ignition Loss
-0.59
Grading
GA85
Water absoprtion
3.90%
LA Test
LA29
Basalt
86%
Basalt glass
13%
Basaltic tuff
<1%
Flakiness Index 9
Fl20