gabbro
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gabbros
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Origin of gabbro
< Italian; akin to Latin glaber smooth
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Bags of gabbro and similar calcium-bearing silicate rocks fill a shed out back and dot the office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
"These elements allowed us to look back through the chemical changes that TTG magmas go through and trace the melt compositions back to their initial state and source -- most likely a sort of gabbro."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2024
Not getting a sample of this gabbro was frustrating, but scientists are already extracting valuable lessons from the momentary failure.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 12, 2021
These dark ferromagnesian minerals are commonly found in gabbro, basalt, diorite, and often form the black specks in granite.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Still more common is the occurrence of sheared, foliated or schistose forms of gabbro.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
Some gabbros are exceedingly coarse-grained and consist of individual crystals several inches in length; such a type often form dikes or veins in serpentine or gabbro, and may be called gabbro-pegmatite.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
In some gabbros and norites reaction rims of fibrous hornblende are found around both hypersthene and diallage where these are in contact with felspar.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
In the United States gabbros and norites occur near Baltimore and near Peekskill on the Hudson river.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
From an economic standpoint gabbros are not of great importance.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
Equally characteristic of the gabbros is the alteration of the felspars to cloudy, semi-opaque masses of saussurite.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
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