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Definition of Gabbroid
1. gabbro [adj] - See also: gabbro
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gabbroid
Literary usage of Gabbroid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala by Geologiska institutionen, Mineralogisk-geologiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet (1908)
"In 1906 DALY [8] expressed the opinion of »a cooling earth superficially composed
of a relatively thin crust overlying a fluid gabbroid substratum of ..."
2. Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1917)
"It repeats the Holyoke type without diopside. COARSE gabbroid DIABASE. The great
north-south Medford ..."
3. Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island by Benjamin Kendall Emerson (1917)
"COARSE gabbroid DIABASE. The great north-south Medford dike of coarse diabase,
which is continued south across Mystic River as the Powder House dike, ..."
4. Igneous Rocks and Their Origin by Reginald Aldworth Daly (1914)
"... Sudbury, Minnesota, or South African sheet always overlies a gabbroid or ...
of the world are best regarded as differentiates of gabbroid (basaltic or ..."
5. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1916)
"The coarser gabbroid variety occurs in various localities, ... A specimen [13419]
with gabbroid affinities was also obtained from the dump of the Hannans ..."
6. Legislative Document by New York (State). Legislature (1919)
"The border facies thus merely represents the very outer and upper portions of
the original gabbroid magma which solidified too rapidly to permit much ..."
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