Definition of Diabases. Meaning of Diabases. Synonyms of Diabases

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Definition of Diabases

Diabase
Diabase Di"a*base, n. [F. diabase, fr. Gr. ? a crossing or passing over, fr. ?; ? + ? to go; -- so called by Brongniart, because it passes over to diorite.] (Min.) A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone.

Meaning of Diabases from wikipedia

- chlorite, and calcite. The texture is termed diabasic and is typical of diabases. This diabasic texture is also termed interstitial. The feldspar is high...
- e. the diabase usually cuts the sandstone) than temporal (all the Jotnian sandstones not necessarily older than all the Postjotnian diabases). At large...
- pyroxene, amphibole, and biotite. Common mafic rocks include basalt, diabase and gabbro. Mafic rocks often also contain calcium-rich varieties of plagioclase...
- extrusive igneous rock. Types of trap rock include basalt, peridotite, diabase, and gabbro. Trap is also used to refer to flood (plateau) basalts, such...
- and the specific gravity is 2.8 - 3.0. The type localities are in the diabases of the Connecticut River valley and Arendal, Aust-Agder, Norway. ****ociated...
- Subvolcanic rocks include diabase (also known as dolerite) and porphyry. Common examples of subvolcanic rocks are diabase, quartz dolerite, microgranite...
- intermediate between plutonic and volcanic rock, and are classified as diabases or dolerites. Rare ultramafic hypabyssal rocks called lamprophyres have...
- as black granite. In geological terms, black granite might be gabbro, diabase, basalt, diorite, norite, or anorthosite. Morales Demarco, Manuela; Oyhantçabal...
- The York Haven Diabase is a rock formation in Pennsylvania, United States. It underlies the Rossville Diabase and is Jur****ic in age. The formation is...
- granites and rhyolites (the red rocks), gabbroic rocks, anorthosites, and diabases (the black rocks). Subsidence resulted in burial by sandstones and carbonates...