Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or of the nature of gabbro: as, gabbroic rocks.
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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or containing
gabbro
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Examples
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Huge archaeological potential is the presence of native pottery, Cornish gabbroic coarseware.
Beach Party A.D. 503 2001
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The wall rocks to the pegmatites consist of a sequence of mafic volcanics and gabbroic intrusive bodies.
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The prospect lies within a belt of rocks assigned to the Triassic Amphitheatre Group of the Wrangellia terrane, consisting of basalt flows and minor interflow argillite, limestone, and tuff, commonly with gabbroic sills.
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The mineralized environment is a sheared and possibly mylonitized contact zone between a gabbroic unit and metasediments with a steep dip to the southeast.
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Hole 63 encountered the thickest gabbroic body over 69.4 metres though no significant mineralization was encountered.
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