diabase (Crossword)

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  1. A fine-grained gabbro occurring as minor intrusions
  2. An altered dolerite
  3. Aphanitic rock
  4. Rock that is, in essence, a fine-grained gabbro

Definitions of “diabase”
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• Often limited to rocks pretertiary in age
• A basic, dark-coloured, holocrystalline, igneous rock
• A fine-grained gabbro occurring as minor intrusions
• Rock that is, in essence, a fine-grained gabbro
• A common basic igneous rock usually occurring in dykes or sills
• Diabase s or dolerite or microgabbro is a mafic, holocrystalline
• A crystalline igneous rock rich in magnesium & iron content
• A granular igneous rock, dark gray to black, sometimes called dolerite
• A dark igneous rock consisting essentially of augite and feldspar
• Fine- to medium-grained, dark gray to black intrusive igneous rock

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