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Definition of Gabbros
1. gabbro [n] - See also: gabbro
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gabbros
Literary usage of Gabbros
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"gabbros and olivine-gabbros are the principal rock types met with. ... Near the
amphibolite the gabbros grade into quartz diorites. ..."
2. Petrology for Students: An Introduction to the Study of Rocks Under the by Alfred Harker (1908)
"Porphyritic structure is very rarely met with in the gabbros and ... In many
gabbros the felspar is more or less distinctly embraced by the augite or ..."
3. The Tertiary Igneous Rocks of Skye by Alfred Harker (1904)
"These normal gabbros are typical basic rocks, varying in texture from coarse to
fine. ... To illustrate the chemical composition of the normal gabbros two ..."
4. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1895)
"In the gabbros of the Isle of Skye this structure, ... These banded gabbros are
coarse-grained rocks composed of pyroxene, plagio- clase, ..."
5. Igneous Rocks and Their Origin by Reginald Aldworth Daly (1914)
"The writer will hazard a suggestion as to the genesis of one type of the hornblende
gabbros, a type which he has studied in some detail. ..."
6. A Report on the Asbestos, Talc and Soapstone Deposits of Georgia by Oliver Baker Hopkins (1914)
"A comparison of all the analyses of gabbros, diorites, hornblende schists and
hornblende gneisses quoted will reveal two significant facts: the small ..."
7. A Handbook of Rocks: For Use Without the Microscope by James Furman Kemp (1896)
"THE DIORITES, gabbros, PYROXENITES AND PERIDOTITES. ULTRA-BASIC SiO2. ...
The parallelism with gabbros will be shown by the next table to be close. ..."
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