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- contact metamorphism by adjacent granitic m****es. Metamorphosed basalt (metabasalt) creates ortho-amphibolite and other chemically appropriate lithologies...
- content or texture. For example, a metabasalt showing weak schistosity might be described as a gneissic metabasalt, and a pelite containing abundant staurolite...
- type. For example, a weakly metamorphosed basalt would be described as a metabasalt, or a weakly metamorphosed tuff as a metatuff. Metavolcanic rock is commonly...
- brick, and the slightly harder green clay, which is actually crushed metabasalt. Although slightly less expensive to construct than other types of tennis...
- greenschist but can also be rock types without any schistosity, especially metabasalt (spilite). However, basalts may remain quite black if primary pyroxene...
- several types of metamorphic rocks which are used synonymously with 'metabasalt' et cetera; greenschist, whiteschist and blueschist are all terms spawned...
- metamorphic rock shows that its protolith was basalt, it will be described as a metabasalt. When the protolith cannot be determined, the rock is classified by its...
- limestone, gabbro, quartzite, pyroxenite, manganese and iron ores and metabasalt. The Proterozoic non-fossiliferous sedimentary formations of the Kaladgi...
- fault can be seen at the north end of Pettes Cove, where it separates metabasalt of Swallowtail Head from schist of North Head. Grand Manan has a humid...
- mineralized quartz veins within sheared ophiolite sequences of serpentinite and metabasalt, imbricated with Hammamat sediments, in direct contact with the tonalite...