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Gabbro 170618153901
Gabbro 170618153901
MINERALOGY
TEXTURES
(IUGS CLASSIFICATION) STRECKEINSEN
CLASSIFICATION OF GABBRO(1967)
THEORIES BASED ON ORIGIN
WORLD DISTRIBUTION
ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE
USES OF GABBRO
CONCLUSIONS
REFERENCES
Gabbro refers to a large group of dark, coarse-grained,
intrusive mafic igneous rocks plutonic equivalent to
basalt.
Orbicular texture
Cumulate texture Ophitic texture
Poikilitic texture
(IUGS Classification) Streckeinsen
Classification Of Gabbro(1967)
Gabbro
Norite
Possible explanation involves multiple injection of batches of
identical magma, which subsequently differentiate to produce
each cycle.
Similarities between bedding and grain fabric of clastic
sedimentary bodies with the rhythmic layering and cumulus
fabric of stratiform intrusions suggest similar process of
sedimentation has been considered to involve simultaneous
gravity induced crystal settling.
Convection was responsible for the rhythmic layering, igneous
layering cross bedding. Here the magma near the roof would
begin to crystallize first become denser gravitationally unstable
would like to sink along the walls of intrusion and spread
horizantal along the floor.
At a number of times in the earth history particularly during
the Precambrian, conditions varied as continental rifting and
meteoritic impact led to the development of enormous
volumes of tholeitic magma which on slowly cooling
differentiated into remarkable suites of cumulates.
The form of a typical LMI
WORLD DISTRIBUTION
Layered Mafic Intrusions
Some Principal Layered Mafic Intrusions
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Name Age Location Area (km )
Bushveld Precambrian S. Africa 66,000
Dufek Jurassic Antarctica 50,000
Duluth Precambrian Minnesota, USA 4,700
Stillwater Precambrian Montana, USA 4,400
Muskox Precambrian NW Terr. Canada 3,500
Great Dike Precambrian Zimbabwe 3,300
Kiglapait Precambrian Labrador 560
Skaergård Eocene East Greenland 100