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- Close-up of gabbro specimen; Rock Creek Canyon, eastern Sierra Nevada, California. Gabbro (Template:Pron-en) refers to a large group of dark, coarse-grained, intrusive mafic igneous rocks chemically equivalent to basalt. — “Gabbro - Wikipedia Mirror”, wiki-mirror.be
- Gabbro is a large group of mafic igneous rocks that are dark in color and their grain is very coarse. a They have the same chemical equivalency to basalt. Their formation occurs by molten magma that is trapped underneath the Earth's surface and. — “Gabbro - Kosmix : Reference, Videos, Images, News, Shopping”,
- Although gabbros have been sampled elsewhere in the oceans, where faulting and tectonic is the first time that gabbros have been recovered from intact ocean. — “University of Michigan News Service”, ns.umich.edu
- TSX-V: PCY OTC: PCYRF Frankfurt: 3P1 VANCOUVER, Jan. 25 /CNW/ -. — “PROPHECY RESOURCE CORP. | Prophecy completes acquisition of”, newswire.ca
- The rocks, recovered from more than a mile below the sea floor, were formed millions of years ago when boiling magma contacted first water. — “Recovered Gabbros Could Hold Inner Earth's Secrets | LiveScience”,
- Gabbro. Gabbro is a dark, coarse-grained, intrusive igneous rock chemically equivalent to basalt because it shares a common origin, German geologist Christian Leopold von Buch named gabbro after a town in the Italian Tuscany region. — “Gabbro - New World Encyclopedia”,
- Definition of gabbros in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of gabbros. Pronunciation of gabbros. Translations of gabbros. gabbros synonyms, gabbros antonyms. Information about gabbros in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. — “gabbros - definition of gabbros by the Free Online Dictionary”,
- Scientists Delve Into Secrets of the Ocean's Crust, Achieve Scientific 'First' Although gabbros have been sampled elsewhere in the oceans, where faulting and tectonic movement have brought them closer to the seafloor, this is the first time that gabbros have been recovered from intact ocean crust. — “UCSB Press Release: "Scientists Delve Into Secrets of the”, ia.ucsb.edu
- Oceanic gabbros form most of the oceanic crustal section, and yet are the least-studied of oceanic crustal and mantle rocks. One fact is that the grand majority of oceanic gabbros are cumulates that have given up nearly their entire trace element budget to the crust. — “Week 7: Overview”, mpch-
- gabbro were penetrated beneath this contact, with the 52-m-thick upper gabbro separated 24-m-thick lower gabbro by a 24-m screen of granoblastic. longstanding scientific ocean. — “IODP Expeditions 309 and 312 Drill an Intact Section of Upper”,
- Rocks pulled from beneath the Pacific Ocean by geologists drilling more than a mile into the sea floor may help researchers unlock Earth's secrets. The pebbles, known as gabbros, were found in the crust below the Pacific Ocean about 400 miles west of Costa Rica. They were once. — “Experts hope rocks unravel Earth's secrets - ”,
- Gabbro and basalt are two closely related rocks, distinguished only by their grain size Gabbros are plutonic (deep-seated) rocks and crystallize from magmas that cool slowly,. — “MINERALOGY-101: BASALT & GABBRO ENVIRONMENTS by Lloyd Brown”,
- Chemical Stratigraphy of Gabbros. Preliminary Remarks. Some 861 chemical ***yses of gabbro were obtained on board ship and in to the general run of olivine gabbros and troctolites comprising the olivine-gabbro sequences as previously defined; rocks with. — “APPENDIX A”, www-odp.tamu.edu
- Our show this week takes a look at nanotech armor and a very very deep hole in the Earth_ s crust. Liquid Nano-armor and Drilling for Gabbros. Podcast [Return to listing page] May 05, 2006. Open audio Download. — “Museum of Science, Boston | Podcasts | Liquid Nano-armor and”,
- gabbro n. , pl. , -bros . A usually coarse-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of calcic plagioclase and pyroxene. — “gabbro: Definition from ”,
- The results indicated several positive gravity features (gravity highs) including distinct anomalies associated with the Konrad gabbro exposures. The results indicated several positive gravity features (gravity highs) including distinct anomalies associated with the Konrad gabbro exposures. — “Geophysical surveys define drill targets at Cornerstone's”,
- Gabbro. Encyclopedia of chemistry, ***ytics & pharmaceutics with 64,557 entries. — “Gabbro: Encyclopedia of chemistry, ***ytics & pharmaceutics”,
- gabbros. Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jump to: navigation, search This page was last modified on 6 September 2010, at 03:43. Text is available under the. — “gabbros - Wiktionary”,
- Influence of pressure and mineralogy on seismic velocities in oceanic gabbros: Implications for the composition and state of the lower oceanic and 200 MPa, and modal mineralogy in oceanic gabbro samples from Ocean Drilling Program Holes 735B, 894G, and. — “Influence of pressure and mineralogy on seismic velocities in”,
- GABBRO, in petrology, a group of plutonic basic rocks, holocrystalline and usually rather dark green rocks, some of which are true gabbros, while others are serpentines. — “Gabbro - LoveToKnow 1911”, 1911
- Gabbro (pronounced /ˈɡæbroʊ/) refers to a large group of dark, coarse-grained, intrusive Gabbro as a xenolith in a granite, eastern Sierra Nevada, Rock Creek Canyon, California. — “Gabbro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia”,
- Dominating the lower part of the section there are gabbro and anorthosite layers with modal layering that is often graded as well. are excellent petrologic descriptions of the Oman gabbro section, and in Smewing 1981, they both describe. — “Orientation of Olivine in Layered Gabbros, Samail Ophiolite, Oman”, gore.ocean.washington.edu
- Encyclopedia article about Gabbro. Information about Gabbro in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. — “Gabbro definition of Gabbro in the Free Online Encyclopedia”, encyclopedia2
- VMS Ventures Inc. is pleased to announce that diamond drilling will commence shortly at the Company's Lynn Lake Gabbros Nickel Properties. A drill contractor has been hired and equipment is now arriving in Lynn Lake. VMS Ventures holds a dominant. — “VMS Ventures Reports Drill Testing of Nickel Targets to”,
