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The group includes melange which consists of greywacke, limestone, pillow lava, gabbro and serpentenite blocks in a black shale matrix.
Permian and Triassic plutonic complexes comprise monzonite, granite, granodiorite or tonalite with minor gabbro and diorite.
The deepest layer is gabbro, coarse-grained but chemically equivalent to basalt, which forms when magma cools and crystallizes slowly.
The highest core recovery occurs in the massive olivine gabbro, which contain lower densities of fractures and are generally undeformed.
A dioritic pod in varitextured gabbro was sampled for U-Pb age determination.
Layne's butterweed grows in open rocky areas of gabbro and serpentine soils within chaparral plant communities.
Jansen also describes gabbro, diabase, ultrabasic rocks and Permian limestones in a comparable section on Naxos.
The stones used include red jasper, white oriental alabaster, yellow chalcedony, and green gabbro.
Contacts between plutons of gabbro or hybrid rock and granite are commonly marked by net-vein complexes.
The normal-sense shears are confined to the gabbro block and may represent relict ocean floor faulting.
The ophiolite contains a complete igneous stratigraphy of serpentinized ultramafics, gabbro, sheeted dykes and pillow lavas, as described by Moores.
Numerous gabbro, granitoïd and of diabase intrusions are seen as dykes, sills and of irregular masses.
The lower gabbro layer has a stratified structure and evidently represents the floor or sides of the magma chamber.
These deformation zones are commonly occupied by intrusive units including syenite, quartz feldspar porphyry, gabbro and lamprophyre.
In Nærøyfjord the underlying rocks are anorthosite and gabbro, and softer phyllite.
This band, composed of pyroxenite and gabbro, is sandwiched between a peridotite intrusion to the north and a band of pegmatite to the South.
These gabbro layers are thought to represent the magma chambers, or pockets of lava, that ultimately erupt on the seafloor.
In some places this layer includes pods of plagiogranite, a differentiated rock richer in silica than gabbro.
The upper portion is a comparatively homogeneous feldspathic gabbro, locally patchy and streaky but not sharply banded.
The batholiths are predominantly granodiorite, but gabbro through granite occur as well.
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Anorthite is an essential constituent of many basic igneous rocks, such as gabbro and basalt, also of some meteoric stones.
A soil of very close texture, the gabbro, is found, most largely in the north-east.
From either Whit Tor may be ascended, a tor of gabbro, or volcanic traplike formation.
The gneisses appear to be due in many cases to the crushing and shearing of deep-seated igneous rocks, such as granite and gabbro.
Like labradorite and anorthite, it is a common constituent of basic igneous rocks, such as gabbro and basalt.
It is traversed in places by dikes and sills of diabase or dolerite, while bosses of more or less altered gabbro rise through it.
These are caused either by old intrusions of diabase and gabbro which have undergone modifications, or by later ones of dolerite.
Still more common is the occurrence of sheared, foliated or schistose forms of gabbro.
Rocks of the gabbro group, though perhaps not so common nor occurring in so great masses as granites, are exceedingly widespread.
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