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語源

From Italian gabbro.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɡabɹəʊ/

名詞

gabbro (countable and uncountable, plural gabbros)

1. (geology) Originally, a kind of serpentine; now generally a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene and labradorite.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 59:

     It is known as gabbro and is thought to form the lower layer of the oceanic crust at about four kilometres depth and to comprise a layer up to six kilometres thick, making it one of the most abundant, if least recognisable, materials on earth.

   • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 205:

     Against the dark Ordovician gabbro, the black volcanic base, Rhynie is a streak of technicolour.

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