Gabbro Photos
Cochise College
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Roger Weller, geology instructor                       

wellerr@cochise.edu    copyright 2011

gabbro with labradorite-1
Gabbro is a coarse-grained, dark igneous rock.
The flashes of color come from a variety of plagioclase feldspar known as labradorite.


gabbro                                                                                                                                       labradorite

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Just credit photo to R.Weller/Cochise College.