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Things gabbro often describes (“gabbro ________”)
complexes, diorites, basalt, diorite, diabases, diabase, norites, complex, series, granite, anorthosites, picrite, gneiss, anorthosite, amphibolites, transition, rocks, contact, intrusion, group, suite, schists, bodies, dolerite, dolerites, body, intrusions, type, pegmatites, clan, magma, facies, rock, eclogite, lava, dioryte, schist, association, mass, family, water
How gabbro often is described (“________ gabbro”)
olivine, grained, hornblende, quartz, layered, anorthositic, normal, coarse, meta, bearing, hypersthene, massive, pyroxene, noritic, typical, dark, rich, saussurite, intrusive, marginal, isotropic, average, chilled, porphyritic, orthoclase, foliated, basic, unaltered, black, free, augite, ordinary, feldspathic, orbicular, diabasic, pegmatitic, bronzite, ophitic, minor, banded, leucocratic, melanocratic, later, biotite, flaser, fresh, adjacent, sheared, essexitic, pyrrhotite, uralite, older, diopside, crystalline, altered, troctolitic, granulitic, grey, weathered, younger, subophitic, norite, granular, syeno, homogeneous, poikilitic, undeformed, alkaline, uralitized, gray, nepheline, intergranular, deformed, peculiar, finegrained, textured, duluth, granulated, ophiolitic, coarsely, clinopyroxene, overlying, coarsegrained, intruded, purple, cumulate
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