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Type of igneous rock
Look up diabase in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Diabase (/ˈdaɪ.əˌbeɪs/), also called dolerite (/ˈdɒl.əˌraɪt/) or microgabbro, is a mafic, holocrystalline
Diabase
Rock formation in Pennsylvania
The York Haven Diabase is a rock formation in Pennsylvania, United States. It underlies the Rossville Diabase and is Jurassic in age. The formation is
York_Haven_Diabase
Rocks that resonate like a bell when struck
University. Wherry theorized that the ringing was due to the texture of the diabase rocks and that they were supported by other rocks. He identified the boulder
Ringing_rocks
Aruba's highest natural point
the diabasic portion and are composed of a distinct type of rock called Diabase-Schist-Tuff, as noted in earlier geological research. However, more recent
Jamanota
Mountain range in Nevada, United States
The Diabase Hills are a mountain range in Washoe County, Nevada. "Diabase Hills". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey
Diabase_Hills
Swedish chain of table mountains
million years. In the Permian period, magma penetrated cracks, forming a diabase cap over the sediments.[citation needed] During the Caledonian Orogeny
Västgötabergen
683°W / 47.400; -79.683 The Nipissing sills, also called the Nipissing diabase, is a large 2217– to 2210–million year old group of sills in the Superior
Nipissing_sills
Types of granite
as black granite. In geological terms, black granite might be gabbro, diabase, basalt, diorite, norite, or anorthosite. Morales Demarco, Manuela; Oyhantçabal
Black_granite
Silicate mineral or igneous rock that is rich in magnesium and iron
pyroxene, amphibole, and biotite. Common mafic rocks include basalt, diabase and gabbro. Mafic rocks often also contain calcium-rich varieties of plagioclase
Mafic
Large outcrop on the western Hudson River Valley
The Palisades Sill is a Triassic, 200 Ma diabase intrusion. It extends through portions of New York and New Jersey. It is most noteworthy for The Palisades
Palisades_Sill
Mountain in New Jersey, United States
some sections by one-quarter and the area of its base by four fifths. The diabase rock was used as building material in growing areas like Jersey City. The
Snake_Hill
The Beacon Supergroup and diabase intrusions.
Beacon_Supergroup
Billingen has been quarried for a long time for concrete manufacturing; diabase is also still quarried there. The mesa, located between the two great lakes
Billingen
Unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, US
formed where French Creek cuts across a series of diabase (trap rock) dikes. Erosion of the diabase dikes by the creek has caused huge boulders to fall
Saint_Peters,_Pennsylvania
resort Ski Roundtop is there. The mountain is underlain by the York Haven Diabase. Mountainzone.com Mangan, M. T.; Marsh, B. D.; Froelich, A. J.; Gottfried
Roundtop (York County, Pennsylvania)
Roundtop_(York_County,_Pennsylvania)
Medium-grained intrusive rock
rocks, which form much deeper in the ground. Subvolcanic rocks include diabase (also known as dolerite), porphyry, quartz dolerite, and microgranite.
Subvolcanic_rock
Active volcanoes in Southern California
cores at the Salton Buttes. Rocks found include andesite, basalt, dacite, diabase, gabbro, and rhyolite. Some of these volcanic rocks bear traces of hydrothermal
Salton_Buttes
Mountain in Pennsylvania, United States
diabase below the surface. Millions of years of weathering then stripped away overlying layers of shale and argillite to expose the durable diabase to
Haycock_Mountain
Triassic rift basin in the United States
conglomerate within the basin were intruded by igneous rocks (primarily diabase), which caused thermal metamorphism at the contact with sedimentary rock
Culpeper_Basin
Scientific study of Earth's physical composition
1016/S0377-0273(99)00096-7. Fahrig, W. F.; et al. (August 1965). "Paleomagnetism of Diabase Dykes of the Canadian Shield". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 2 (4):
Geology
Common high-grade metamorphic rock
Contact between a dark-colored diabase dike (about 1100 million years old) and light-colored migmatitic paragneiss in the Kosterhavet National Park in
Gneiss
Mountain in Ontario, Canada
Formation – which is covered by the hard, protective 60 m (200 ft) thick diabase cap. The Rove Formation is part of the Animikie Group. The Rove sedimentary
Mount_McKay
Mountain in Ontario, Canada
The Sleeping Giant is a series of mesas formed by the erosion of thick, diabase sills on Sibley Peninsula that resembles a giant lying on its back when
Sleeping_Giant_(Ontario)
Extinct volcano in Otago, New Zealand
lighter shades of violet) plutonic or intusive (gray) - so dolerite/diabase/microgabbro will have shadings towards gray compared to erupted basalt
Dunedin_Volcano
Mountain range in Wyoming, United States
thick. Other intrusive igneous rocks are noticeable as the black dikes of diabase, visible on the southwest face of Mount Moran and on the Grand Teton. Starting
Teton_Range
Geology of state of Australia
The geology of Tasmania is complex, with the world's biggest exposure of diabase, or dolerite. The rock record contains representatives of each period of
Geology_of_Tasmania
Dark-colored, fine-grained, non-granitic igneous rock
extrusive igneous rock. Types of trap rock include basalt, peridotite, diabase, and gabbro. Trap is also used to refer to flood (plateau) basalts, such
Trap_rock
Type of igneous rock
until that point were listed as a range of minerals, such as diorite, diabase, greenstone or flood basalt, among others. Later in 1866 Hohenegger's definition
Teschenite
Sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body
coarser than basalt erupted at the surface, forming a rock type called diabase. The grain size varies systematically across the dike, with the coarsest
Dike_(geology)
Island in Oslo, Norway
overturned. The island is cross-cut by diabase dikes associated with a major rift in the Oslo area in the Permian. The diabase has been heavily quarried for building
Hovedøya
Oldest known sediments in the Baltic area that have not been subject to metamorphism
other igneous and metamorphic rocks and are often intruded by younger diabases. Jotnian sediments include quartz-rich sandstones, siltstones, arkose,
Jotnian
Mountains in the US state Oklahoma
granites and rhyolites (the red rocks), gabbroic rocks, anorthosites, and diabases (the black rocks). Subsidence resulted in burial by sandstones and carbonates
Wichita_Mountains
Largest of the Great Lakes of North America
Magma was injected between layers of sedimentary rock, forming diabase sills. This hard diabase protects the layers of sedimentary rock below, forming the
Lake_Superior
diabase and subordinate layered diabase. Shoreline exposures of quartz, amphibole diabase, poikilitic diabase, and diabase with pegmatitic patches or veins
Kelvin_Island_(Lake_Nipigon)
glimmerite-carbonatite series rocks are ore-grade rocks; the fenites and crosscutting diabases are waste rocks. There are, however, some late apatite-poor carbonatite
Siilinjärvi_carbonatite
Mountain in Ontario, Canada
Mountain can be seen on a clear day. Devil Mountain is underlain by Nipissing diabase, which forms a 2.2 billion year old magmatic province with an east–west
Devil_Mountain
Mine in Temagami, Ontario, Canada
stripping and sinking of a 35 m (115 ft) shaft in fractured Nipissing diabase. The primary commodities mined at Temagami-Lorrain were cobalt and gold
Temagami-Lorrain_Mine
Mine in Udokan Range, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia
body, dark red denotes a pyrite-chalcopyrite ore body, green is a gabbro diabase, lamprophyre and quartz porphyry dike, and light tan is the Supraore sequence
Udokan_mine
Reservoir in Clinton Township, New Jersey
endure because they were underlaid with dense and durable volcanic rock diabase that cooled slowly under the surface of the Earth. The reservoir covers
Round_Valley_Reservoir
Form of basaltic volcanic glass
and diabase. They are sometimes only a fraction of an inch in thickness, resembling a thin layer of pitch or tar on the edge of a crystalline diabase dike
Tachylite
Volcanic rock intermediate in composition between andesite and rhyolite Diabase, also known as dolerite – Type of igneous rock Diorite – Igneous rock type
List_of_rock_types
cycles (~10–12 m) below the Orange Mountain Basalt. There are numerous diabase intrusions into the Passaic with local contact metamorphic rocks. Olsen
Passaic_Formation
Failed rift of tectonic plates in the southern US
separated into two primary groups, the Raggedy Mountain Gabbros and the Late Diabase Dikes. The Raggedy Mountain Gabbros can be further separated into two subgroups
Southern_Oklahoma_Aulacogen
Northwest Nevada dry lake
which have dark Permian volcanic rocks similar to another Permian black diabase dike formation in Nevada. The portion of the Lake Lahontan lakebed in the
Black_Rock_Desert
Borough and county in New York, US
designated a National Natural Landmark, being "the best example of a thick diabase sill in the United States". It underlies a portion of northwest Staten
Staten_Island
Region in the US state of New York
west side of the river has high cliffs produced by an erosion-resistant diabase; the cliffs range from 400 to 800 feet (120 to 240 m) in height. The Hudson
Hudson_Valley
completed until 1700. It has 4-5 metre thick walls made of granite, gneiss and diabase. Skansen Kronan was never attacked, and the cannons were never fired in
Skansen_Kronan
Mineral
a mixture composed largely of actinolite. The metamorphosed gabbro or diabase rock bodies, referred to as epidiorite, contain a considerable amount of
Actinolite
Lake in Ontario, Canada
They consist of relatively flat-lying and undeformed diabase sills known as the Nipigon diabase sills. These sills range in thickness from a few meters
Lake_Nipigon
Geological formation in New Jersey, US
200 million years ago by a plutonic intrusion of a hard igneous rock, diabase, into the Brunswick Shale. The intrusion occurred as tectonic forces created
Sourland_Mountain
associated with the Vindobonian Volcanic Complex, which includes trachyte, diabase and dolerite intrusions, along with pyroclastic flow sediments. Basalt
Geology_of_Madeira
Magnesium- and iron-rich extrusive igneous rock
to either as diabase (also called dolerite) or—when they are more coarse-grained (having crystals over 2 mm across)—as gabbro. Diabase and gabbro are
Basalt
Species of plant
cliffs composed of calcareous rocks, such as limestone, dolostone and diabase. Cystopteris laurentiana is a fertile allohexaploid hybrid between C. bulbifera
Cystopteris_laurentiana
Desert Hills (Nevada) Desert Mountains Desert Range Devils Hole Hills Diabase Hills Diamond Mountains Division Range Dixie Hills Dolly Varden Mountains
List of mountain ranges of Nevada
List_of_mountain_ranges_of_Nevada
hornblende, calcic plagioclase, and traces of quartz. It is a hornblende–quartz diabase. Cater, Fred W., Intrusive Rocks of the Holden and Lucern Quadrangles,
Pawdite
Rift basin in northeast US
Union Hill New Germantown/Oldwick Prospect Hill Sand Brook Jacksonwald Diabase Palisades Sill Hudson River Palisades High Tor Hook Mountain Clausland
Newark_Basin
Rock formation in Germany
The Steinerne Rose is a rare natural monument. It is a diabase rock formation, that originated on the sea bed from outflowing lava in the middle Devonian
Steinerne_Rose
Sedimentary rock formation
Group are overlain by a 60 m (200 ft) cap of diabase. This diabase cap is a sill remnant, and most of the diabase is covered by a considerable thickness of
Rove_Formation
rock, known as basalt, if extrusive, or diabase, if intrusive. East Rock, being intrusive, is diabase. Diabase is a dark colored rock, but the iron within
East_Rock
Caves with diabase pillars in Sweden
The Caves of Ryd is a number of diabase pillars on the east side of the mountain of Billingen in Sweden. It is a popular lookout point over the city of
Caves_of_Ryd
Geologic formation in the United States
Union Hill New Germantown/Oldwick Prospect Hill Sand Brook Jacksonwald Diabase Palisades Sill Hudson River Palisades High Tor Hook Mountain Clausland
Doswell_Formation
Protected area of New Jersey, US
basin rift lake system. The main ridge in Sourland Mountain is intrusive diabase (a type of igneous rock) associated with the same igneous event that produced
Sourland_Mountain_Preserve
National park in Maine, United States
fine-grained, black igneous rock called diabase intruded into the granite during later volcanic activity. Diabase bodies, or dikes, are visible along the
Acadia_National_Park
Provincial park in Ontario, Canada
the park include the site of the former Fort La Cloche trading post and diabase dykes cutting through older Lorrain, Gowganda, and Bruce formations, as
La_Cloche_Provincial_Park
Place where geological material has been excavated
clay Cinder Clay Coal Construction aggregate (sand and gravel) Coquina Diabase Flint Gabbro Granite Gritstone Gypsum Limestone Marble Ores Phosphate rock
Quarry
Capital city of Republic of Karelia, Russia
quarries in the region excavating road aggregates (Goloday Gora – gabbro-diabase) near Derevyanka. The suburb of Martsialnye Vody is the oldest spa in Russia
Petrozavodsk
Rift valley in the southeastern USA
top of the rift sediments. Diabase sills (sheet-like intrusions) are also present within the basin. The basalts and diabases together form a resistant
South_Georgia_rift
Mountain range in Germany
Dillmulde typical rocks of this time such as Schalstein, Massenkalk and deck diabase absent here. The greywacke occurring here and at other places in the eastern
Taunus
Memorial in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
slab. The rock of the stele, black Lobenstein diabase, was chosen with symbolic character, as diabase means transition in Greek. A Star of David is sculpted
Memorial_to_Jewish_Citizens
Body of intrusive igneous rocks
composition. A composite dike can include rocks as different as granophyre and diabase. While there is often little visual evidence of multiple injections in
Igneous_intrusion
Island off the coast of Maine, U.S.
Complex of Maine and New Hampshire, intrusion of diorites, Acadian orogeny, diabase dikes, and glaciation. Evidence of these events can be seen in glacial
Appledore_Island
Formation) Sedimentary Permian 3aM (flow of mugearite) 3F (Sill of diabase) E (esterellite) K (hornfels) E2-3 (blocks and pebbles) Fx-z (alluvium)
Esterellite
Uplifted and exposed oceanic crust
definition to encompass a variety of igneous rocks as well such as gabbro, diabase, ultramafic and volcanic rocks. Ophiolites thus became a name for a well-known
Ophiolite
Mine in Shimokawa, Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan
chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, pyrite and sphalerite. The ore body was formed at diabase intrusion into the sedimentary slate layer. The formation of ore have started
Shimokawa_mine
Unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, US
year-round, but rather from a unique hydrogeological feature. Two vertical diabase dikes, made up of highly impermeable igneous basalt parent rock, cut through
Boiling_Springs,_Pennsylvania
Building in Alupka, Crimea
The palace's ashlar blocks were made from a local greenish-gray tinge diabase, chosen for its unique colour to match the colours of the surrounding mountainous
Vorontsov_Palace_(Alupka)
Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean
of this igneous rock. There is very little coarser-grained gabbro and diabase. Nephelinite is exposed on the islands but is extremely rare. The majority
Hawaiian_Islands
Lithostratigraphic unit
Union Hill New Germantown/Oldwick Prospect Hill Sand Brook Jacksonwald Diabase Palisades Sill Hudson River Palisades High Tor Hook Mountain Clausland
Boonton_Formation
American experimental rock and mineral physicist
Zimmerman, M.E.; Kohlstedt, D.L. (1998). "High-temperature deformation of dry diabase with application to tectonics on Venus". Journal of Geophysical Research
David_Kohlstedt
Oceanic rift basin
addition to the basalt flows, other important igneous rock types include diabases associated with the grabens and red beds, and overlapping, north-northwest
Gulf_of_Mexico_basin
Mg, Fe, Al cyclosilicate mineral
Ireland sekaninaite occurs in bauxitic clay within the contact aureole of a diabase intrusive plug. The chemical formula of sekaninaite is: ( Fe 2 + , Mg 2
Sekaninaite
Municipality in Scania, Sweden
famous, very fine-grained black diabase is mined in Östra Göinge. Because of the extremely high quality of the diabase from this area, it is in high demand
Östra_Göinge_Municipality
System of faults in the northeast United States
Union Hill New Germantown/Oldwick Prospect Hill Sand Brook Jacksonwald Diabase Palisades Sill Hudson River Palisades High Tor Hook Mountain Clausland
Ramapo_Fault
Mountain range in Kazakhstan
Permian period are composed of lavas, tuffs, rhyolites, andesites, dacites, diabases, and basalts. In places, they break through Permian and Triassic intrusions
Katutau_mountains
Uppermost layer of the oceanic portion of a tectonic plate
the form of pillow basalt. Layer 2B is a 1.5 km thick layer composed of diabase dikes. Layer 3 is formed by slow cooling of magma beneath the surface and
Oceanic_crust
argillite, basalt, bluestone, breccia, conglomerate, coquina, coral, dacite, diabase, diorite, dolomite, gabbro, gneiss, granite, granodiorite, greenstone,
NIST_stone_test_wall
Silicate mineral
mineral in nepheline syenites, within hydrothermal cavities in basalts and diabase and in serpentinites in association with zeolites, datolite, prehnite,
Pectolite
Region of New Jersey, United States
north that runs from Mount Airy to an area just west of Flagtown and a diabase formation running from Lambertville to Mount Airy. The Sourland also include
The_Sourlands
Quartz dolerite or quartz diabase is an intrusive rock similar to dolerite (also called diabase), but with an excess of quartz. Dolerite is similar in
Quartz-dolerite
Earth's outer shell of rock
thick and composed primarily of denser, more mafic rocks, such as basalt, diabase, and gabbro. The average thickness of the crust is about 15–20 km (9.3–12
Earth's_crust
Danish seismologist (1888–1993)
artist, Elisabeth Toubro. The monument consists of a 8.8 m tall black diabase and patinated bronze. It is one of six portrait busts stood in front of
Inge_Lehmann
Hiking trail in Connecticut, United States
hiking trail, about 7 miles (11 km) long, roughly following the edge of a diabase, or traprock, cliff northwest of New Haven, Connecticut. It is named for
Regicides_Trail
Large geological structure in Finland
Bothnian Sea and western and central Finland. They are made up of Subjotnian diabase dikes, associated with rapakivi magmatism. They were most likely formed
Satakunta_dyke_swarms
Mountain in New Jersey, US
Round Mountain is linked to Cushetunk Mountain by a sheet of intruded diabase rock running beneath the surface. Located on the mountains are the communities
Cushetunk_Mountain
Aboriginal Australian archaeological site in Central Victoria, Australia
the mounds of waste rock where Aboriginal people obtained greenstone (diabase), and manufactured stone blanks for axe heads. Chipped and ground stone
Mount William stone axe quarry
Mount_William_stone_axe_quarry
Mountain in Arizona, United States
local sandstone and conglomerate. The portions have been intruded by a Diabase Dike of the Apace Group. Summerhaven is a small town near the top of the
Mount_Lemmon
Provincial park and wilderness area in Ontario, Canada
development is usual in well-drained situations. Mineral-rich rock types such as diabase and limestone occur locally and the soils that have developed over them
Killarney_Provincial_Park
Canyon in Ontario, Canada
00 sq mi) around the canyon. The canyon is believed to have formed when a diabase sill dating from a billion years earlier was split open, either by the
Ouimet_Canyon
situated in a variety of geological formations. This includes the Nipissing diabase and Temagami greenstone belt, which hosts a variety of mineral deposits
List_of_mines_in_Temagami
Summit in Oregon, United States
Arboretum at its base. The hill consists of basalt or its intrusive equivalent diabase. Small crystals of calcite and various zeolite minerals are often seen
Mount Pisgah (Lane County, Oregon)
Mount_Pisgah_(Lane_County,_Oregon)
DIABASE
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Boy/Male
British, English
Bard; Poet; Variant of the English County Name Devon
Boy/Male
Tamil
Basavaraj | பஸவராஜ
Lord of bulls
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Pleasing; Refreshing
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Telugu
Song
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Traditional
God of Victory
Female
Danish
, of Magdala.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Emanating from the lotus
Boy/Male
English French
Fifth. Derived from Roman clan name.
Female
Thai/Siamese
Thai name PEN-CHAN means "full moon."
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Pure; Clean
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n.
A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone.
n.
A kind of diorite or diabase containing imbedded whitish spherules, which give the rock a spotted appearance.
a.
Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections.
n.
A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc.
n.
A greenish chloritic mineral common in certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as a result of alternation.
n.
A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness. So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled appearance.