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What does gabbroid mean?

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Adjective
  1. (geology) Resembling gabbro.
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Hess's hypothesis on the serpentinite composition of the lower oceanic crust was confirmed by serpentinite and gabbroid fragments dredged from some fracture zones.
Pegmatoid and gabbroid layers in Jurassic Preakness and Hook Mountain basalts, Newark Basin, New Jersey.
The enclaves in the mentioned basaltoids represent peridotites, pyroxenites and gabbroid rocks.
Unit G is composed of sparsely to moderately porphyritic basalt, with gabbroid xenoliths, plagioclase glomerocrysts and olivine microphenocrysts.

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