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Home Dictionary Name: diabaseDiabase
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...
Greenstone
A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark colored igneous rocks including diorite diabase etc...
Lath shaped
Having a slender elongated form like a lath said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks as diabase as seen in microscopic sections...
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