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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...
- Quartz gabbro is an intrusive rock with a composition intermediate between gabbro and tonalite. It is defined in the QAPF classification as co****-grained...
- Baltimore Gabbro Complex is a hypersthene gabbro with subordinate amounts of olivine gabbro, norite, anorthositic gabbro, and pyroxenite. Igneous minerals...
- is the Farmington Gabbro, located in the Mocksville Complex. The Mocksville Complex consist of metamorphosed/unmetamorphosed gabbros, pyroxenites, hornblendites...
- Gabbro Peak is an 11,033-foot-elevation (3,363-meter) mountain summit located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Mono County of northern California...
- Biotite Amphibole Quartz It is thought that the meta-gabbros present throughout the Concord Gabbro-Syenite Complex were placed approximately 520-580 million...
- rocks, such as gabbro and diabase, scapolite replaces feldspar by a secondary or metasomatic process. Some Norwegian scapolite-gabbros (or diorite) examined...
- The Gabbro Hills (84°42′S 173°0′W / 84.700°S 173.000°W / -84.700; -173.000) are a group of rugged ridges and coastal hills which border the Antarctic...