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Definition of Gabbros

Gabbro
Gabbro Gab"bro, n. [It.] (Geol.) A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro).

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- layered gabbros near Stavanger, Norway. Gabbros are also present in stocks ****ociated with alkaline volcanism of continental rifting. Gabbro often contains...
- Mountain Gabbro Group, the other being the Glen Mountain Layered Complex. The Roosevelt Gabbros are generally characterized as biotite gabbros, which form...
- Hornblende gabbro is an intrusive rock similar to normal gabbro (gabbro sensu stricto). In the QAPF classification it falls within the gabbro field, in...
- structure. Igneous rock is exposed inside and there are rhyolites and gabbros that have undergone hydrothermal alteration, and a central megabreccia...
- rocks, such as gabbro and diabase, scapolite replaces feldspar by a secondary or metasomatic process. Some Norwegian scapolite-gabbros (or diorite) examined...
- gabbro, but with significant amounts of anorthosite and other related granitic rocks. The Duluth Complex is one of the largest intrusions of gabbro on...
- is the Farmington Gabbro, located in the Mocksville Complex. The Mocksville Complex consist of metamorphosed/unmetamorphosed gabbros, pyroxenites, hornblendites...
- Biotite Amphibole Quartz It is thought that the meta-gabbros present throughout the Concord Gabbro-Syenite Complex were placed approximately 580-520 million...
- classify the teschenites as an analcime-bearing gabbro. They are petrogenetically unrelated to nepheline gabbros as analcime is not produced by the same genetic...
- Quartz gabbro is an intrusive rock with a composition intermediate between gabbro and tonalite. It is defined in the QAPF classification as co****-grained...