For many years significant differences were thought to exist in the form of basaltic lavas generated in subaerial and subaqueous environments. Only with the advent of modern oceanography and marine geology toward the middle the 20th century have uniformitarian geologists begun to understand the significance of subaqueous volcanic settings. Youngearth creationists have Generally been unaware that high-volume lava flows and explosive-erupted basaltic volcanic rocks extruded in a subaqueous setting are practically identical to those formed in a subaerial environment. This knowledge opens new possibilities within the young-earth Flood framework in the interpretation of basaltic volcanic strata found in the terrestrial stratigraphic record. While not all continental-based basaltic strata originated in a underwater setting, a more careful examination is now warranted.