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Gabbro is a type of dark, coarse-grained igneous rock, often used for making sculptures and countertops
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- Originally, a kind of serpentine; now generally a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene and labradorite.
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It grows in unique habitat in chaparral on gabbro soils.
The mineral composition of gabbro is similar to that of basalt.
Gabbro and granite are examples of intrusive igneous rocks.
Boreray is formed of a breccia of gabbro and dolerites.
Gabbro is the intrusive equivalent of basalt.
The magnetic anomalies are explained by an outcrop of magnetic gabbro.
Xenoliths containing gabbro are also found.
They are made of a rock called gabbro.
Gabbro is also found as plutons associated with continental volcanism.
Oceanic crust is composed primarily of basalt and gabbro.
Alkali gabbro fragments fall well off the curve.
Highland components include cataclastic gabbro and troctolite.
Olivine gabbro is the dominant rock type of the intrusion.
The mineralization is hosted in a layered anorthositic gabbro intrusion.
The large crystals in the gabbro rocks give away their origin.
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Talc can develop by serpentinization of mafic rocks like gabbro.
Gabbro can be cut and polished to form what is known as black granite.
One of these intrusions contained the gabbro and diorite.
Gabbro and norite often occur in the upper portions of the layered ultramafic sequences.
It also occurs as a secondary mineral in altered gabbro and diorite.
The gabbro layer does not even begin until the crust is about two miles thick.
It looks like a finely vesicular version of our clinopyroxene gabbro.
Norite may be essentially indistinguishable from gabbro without thin section study under the petrographic microscope.
Field relationships indicate that syenites are subsequent to the gabbro.
The orientation of the layers of gabbro in Skarstind is uncommon.
It was also discovered that the meteorite had similarities to terrestrial gabbro or basalt.
Gabbro is an intrusive igneous rock which is chemically equivalent to plutonic Basalt.
That magma crystallizes to mafic rocks such as gabbro and basalt.
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Smaller amounts of olivine and amphibole may also be found within gabbro.
Within these mountains there are also two gabbro tubes that are Early Devonian in age.
The walls are revetted with white marble above and black gabbro below.
She was nicknamed Il pulcino di Gabbro the little chick of Gabbro.
The magnetic and conductive zones may be partly related to graphitic schists and gabbro dykes.
The Gabbro bar.
There are also mafic dikes that intrude the tonalitic country rock that surrounds the gabbro.
He was also first to find Gabbro in Iceland.
Gabbro improved Road.
The side of the pit consists of Precambrian gabbro.
Gabbro is often marketed commercially as " black granite.
The species was described from Gabbro near Pisa.
Gabbro is generally coarse grained, with crystals in the size range of 1 mm or greater.
Both are intruded by the Middle Proterozoic Shabogamo gabbro.
There are also incidences of gabbro and diorite, less commonly eclogite.
Common mafic rocks include basalt, diabase and gabbro.
These commonly terminate downward in foliated gabbro and ( or ) lineated amphibolite.
Tachylyte differs in composition - it has a composition similar to basalt and gabbro.
Norite is most abundant, but gabbro and hornblende gabbro are locally abundant.
Gabbro is kind of like like granite, but not quite the same.
There are also small, scattered bodies of gabbro and ultramafitite.
