Diabase

Word DIABASE
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Hyphenation di a base
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Definitions and meanings of "Diabase"

What do we mean by diabase?

A dark-gray to black, fine-textured igneous rock composed mainly of feldspar and pyroxene and used for monuments and as crushed stone. noun

The name originally given by A. Brongniart to a rock which Haüy later designated as diorite, which name Brongniart himself adopted in preference to that of diabase. noun

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. noun

A fine-grained igneous rock composed mostly of pyroxene and feldspar noun

A fine-grained igneous rock composed mostly of pyroxene and feldspar.

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The word "diabase" in example sentences

The boulders are made of a substance called diabase which is basically volcanic basalt. ❋ Unknown (2010)

•On diabase and basalt ridge slopes, mixed oak forests are found; red oak, white oak, and black oak are most common, and sugar maple, chestnut oak, black birch, white ash, and tulip tree occur. ❋ Unknown (2009)

•Molten diabase and basalt (i.e., “trap rock”) intruded shales, argillites, conglomerates, and reddish sandstones along the scattered sills and dikes of Ecoregion 64b during the Triassic Period. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On steep ridges, soils derived from basalt or diabase are often unstable; they tend to creep downslope, creating shallow, ledgy soils on upper slopes, and deeper, wetter gley soils on lower slopes near the bases of ridges. ❋ Unknown (2009)

•In New Jersey, native vegetation is mixed oak forest on well-drained upland sites over sandstone, shale, diabase, and basalt. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Stony, non-acidic, fine-textured soils with a heavy clay subsoil are common over diabase; they are hard to till and best suited for forest or pasture. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Stony, steep, mostly wooded ridges, hills, and palisades that are composed of highly resistant diabase, basalt, or heat-altered sedimentary rock. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In moister valleys, ravines, and on steep, lower, north-facing diabase ridges, hemlock-mixed hardwood forests are native. ❋ Unknown (2009)

•Partly glaciated, irregular plains and low hills that have been extensively cleared for farms or suburban-urban developments; in addition, large old glacial lake beds are found near the Wisconsinan terminal moraine, and scattered, forested, rocky ridges occur on diabase and basalt intrusions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some areas within this region have more alkaline soils, such as the Iredell series, formed over diabase, diorite, or gabbro, and may be associated with areas once known as blackjack oak prairies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Acid loving plants are absent from diabase and basalt areas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The primary ridge formers are the Gettysburg and Hammer Creek conglomerates and, most commonly, diabase (trap rock). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Red, Triassic sandstone, conglomerate, siltstone, shale, and breccia of the Newark Supergroup dominate and scattered dikes and sills composed of diabase occur (Hunt, 1967, p. 258; Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, 1993). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Metarhyolite and metabasalt occur in Pennsylvania; diabase, metabasalt, and metarhyolite are found in Maryland. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The flora on soils derived from the diabase intrusions which are basic in character are distinctive; acid loving plants are absent from diabase areas (Allard and Leonard, 1962). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thin, fine-textured clayey soils have commonly developed over diabase and are non-acidic and shallow. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Triassic diabase has more open joints than sandstone or shale and yields more water; the ground water from diabase is softer than the harder water from wells in shale or sandstone (Petro and others, 1956). ❋ Unknown (2008)

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