Coarse Gabbro, Grenville, Quebec Gabbro is a coarse-grained, dark-colored, intrusive igneous rock. It is phaneritic (coarse-grained), mafic intrusive


Coarse Gabbro, Grenville, Quebec Gabbro is a coarse-grained, dark-colored, intrusive igneous rock. It is phaneritic (coarse-grained), mafic intrusive igneous rock formed from the slow cooling of magnesium-rich and iron-rich magma into a holocrystalline mass.


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