gabbro

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Using a slab of gabbro, a rock mineralogically similar to basalt, we measure a current on the order of 100 nanoamperes.

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  1. noun A usually coarse-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of calcic plagioclase and pyroxene. Also called norite.

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  • The magnetic data for both properties may be interpreted to indicate the presence of gabbro dykes or masses, which could host mineralization similar to the L-Zone. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • Such a gabbro mass on the northwestern edge of the Big Mac property is shown on a geological map produced by previous workers. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • One such vantage point is in the Brook Garden, fragrant with autumn clematis, where you'll find Isamu Noguchi's "Black Sun" (1960-63), a modernist doughnut made of gabbro,
  • Six strong EM conductors have been identified by a previous MKVI Input EM survey associated with magnetic bodies interpreted to be gabbro-pyroxenite, similar in setting to the Norton deposit (since the Gee Ten web site is under reconstruction please see East West's website for details, www. eastwestres.com). —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • Some common mafic igneous rocks include fine-grained basalt and coarse-grained gabbro. —  Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth
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  1. Italian, perhaps from Latin glaber, bald, beardless.

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  1. A word of obscure origin used in Italy, but more especially in the neighborhood of Florence, and by the marble-workers there, and introduced into lithological science by Von Buch in 1809.
 

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/ˈgæbroʊ/
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