Gabbro - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: gabbroGabbro
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...
Euphotide
A rock occurring in the Alps consisting of saussurite and smaragdite sometimes called gabbro...
Pyroxene
A common mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals with a prismatic angle of nearly 90deg and also in massive forms which are often laminated It varies in color from white to dark green and black and includes many varieties differing in color and composition as diopside malacolite salite coccolite augite etc They are all silicates of lime and magnesia with sometimes alumina and iron Pyroxene is an essential constituent of many rocks especially basic igneous rocks as basalt gabbro etc...
Smaragdite
A green foliated kind of amphibole observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro...
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