Gabbro Photos
Cochise College
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Roger Weller, geology instructor                       

wellerr@cochise.edu    copyright 2007

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


Photo is copyright free for non-commercial educational uses. 
Just credit photo to R.Weller/Cochise College.

Specimen courtesy of Dave Dechant