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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In petrography, a name used by Rosenbusch for saussurite-gabbro in which the secondary smaragdite and saussurite preserve the original texture of the rock in spite of the complete transformation they represent. It is distinguished from flaser-gabbro, in which there has been change in the form of the constituents.

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