Talk:Gabbro

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Question

I know it says "first draft," but this looks remarkably like the text at "http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~jill/gabbro.html"(I was looking for the chemical formula for gabbro).Epopt,are you ~jill? --Vicki Rosenzweig

I am not ~jill; the page no longer resembles hers at all. --the Epopt

this page needs more information on CERTAIN types of rocks like the classification and all that

Clarification?

The first sentence under thePetrologysection makes no sense to me:"Gabbro is an extrusive melting lava."Gabbro is an intrusive rock type, not extrusive, and would form frommagmarather thanlava.If this sentence is saying something, it needs to be clarified. I am removing it from the article as it stands. --BlueCanoe 21:45, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm.. that bit of nonsense dates from 2 March - how did I miss that? Good move - maybe I have too many articles on my watchlist.Vsmith 22:33, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

essex, wales and essexite

I don't believe that there is an essex in wales, and essex, england has no igneous rocks at outcrop, I suspect that the type locality would be in New England USA where there are a number of intrusive rocks that have place names derived from east anglia, england e.g. Chelmsford granite. It could of course be new south wales, for all I know.

Should include the fact that it is intrusive equivalent of extrusive basalt.

96.252.103.113(talk)20:32, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Life in gabbro deposits

[1].(mercurywoodrose)75.61.137.238(talk)06:37, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's interesting, but I've placed it in theSerpentinitearticle rather than the article here, since the bacteria may feed on hydrocarbons released by serpentinization of underlying ultramafic rock. --Kent G. Budge(talk)21:31, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bojite

If anyone can clarify the termBojite,a rare type of gabbro, it would help.Jstuby(talk)15:17, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology

The etymology section does not include the origin of the term. It is a history of who used the term first, and where. This source indicates:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/gabbro "from Italian (Tuscan) gabbro, a word among the marble-workers, of obscure origin; perhaps from Latin glaber" bare, smooth, bald "(see glad)"Drbeechwood(talk)17:32, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There is, however, a place called Gabbro in Tuscany, which has also been suggested as the origin of the word. I'll try to find anWP:RSfor that.Mikenorton(talk)19:50, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]