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Jones, I., and Verdel, C. (2015). Basalt distribution and volume estimates of Cenozoic volcanism in the Bowen Basin region of eastern Australia: Implications for a waning mantle plume. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 62(2),
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rocks from multiple feeder sites, over a period of perhaps a million years, may have exceeded 40,000 cubic kilometres. In Tasmania, dolerite dominates much of the landscape, particularly alpine areas, with many examples of
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is made of black diabase "granite" (a commercial term, not actual granite). Diabase can also be cut for use as ornamental stone for countertops, facing stone on buildings, and paving. A form of dolerite, known as
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O'Connor-Parsons, Tansy; Stanley, Clifford R. (2007). "Downhole lithogeochemical patterns relating to chemostratigraphy and igneous fractionation processes in the Golden Mile dolerite, Western Australia".
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Dolerite pounders are hand-held stone tools that were widely used in Egypt from the third to late first millennium BCE for quarrying and dressing granite and other hard rocks.
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Diabase also serves as local building stone. In Tasmania, where it is one of the most common rocks found, it is used for building, for landscaping and to erect
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Wanga Q.; Campbella I. H. (1998). "Geochronology of supracrustal rocks from the Golden Grove area, Murchison Province, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia".
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Nkouandou, Oumarou Faarouk; Bardintzeff, Jacques-Marie; Mahamat, Oumar; Fagny Mefire, Aminatou; Ganwa, Alembert Alexandre (2017-05-22).
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Wilshire, H.G. (1967) The Prospect Alkaline Diabase-Picrite Intrusion New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Petrology 8(1) pp.97-163.
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Miller, MB, and Wright, LA. 2007, "Geology of Death Valley National Park (Third Edition)", Kendall Hunt Publishing, p 19.
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Travis, G.A.; Woodall, R.; Bartram, G.D. (1971), "The Geology of the Kalgoorlie Goldfield", in Glover, J.E. (ed.),
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Balls of diabase were used by the ancient Egyptians as pounding tools for working softer (but still hard) stones.
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refers to altered dolerites and basalts. Some geologists prefer to avoid confusion by using the name
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is the preferred name in the rest of the English-speaking world, where sometimes the name
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and other building materials has been an important activity there for over 180 years.
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for road beds, buildings, railroad beds (rail ballast), and within dams and levees.
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Diabase is usually found in smaller, relatively shallow intrusive bodies such as
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include many large diabase/dolerite sills and dike swarms. These include the
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Dolerite intrusive event occurred about 1,720 million years ago in western
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of the plagioclase anorthite-albite solid solution series, most commonly
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are typically shallow intrusive bodies and often exhibit fine-grained to
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together with Scrabo Sandstone as both are quarried at Scrabo Hill.
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In the Thuringian-Franconian-Vogtland Slate Mountains of central
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of hundreds of individual dikes or sills radiating from a single
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and is typical of diabases. This diabasic texture is also termed
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Ranford, Cath; Melville, Paul; Bentley, Craig (August 2008).
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John, Brian S.; Jackson Jr., Lionel E. (31 December 2008).
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age. They form typical domed landscapes, especially in the
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Intraplate Volcanism: In Eastern Australia and New Zealand
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2002, "The Rock that Makes Tasmania", Leaman Geophysics,
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Kelany, Adel; Harrell, James A.; Brown, V. Max (2010).
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Collection of dikes in the Fish River Canyon, Namibia
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200-kilometre (120 mi) long dolerite dike, the
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West of the Norseman–Wiluna Belt is the 1051:"Definition card for: Galiwinku Dolerite" 930: 1360: 1074:Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU) 1038:Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU) 1015:"Definition card for: Oenpelli Dolerite" 402: 386: 370: 354: 242:Diabase normally has a fine but visible 230: 18: 1055:Australian Stratigraphic Units Database 1019:Australian Stratigraphic Units Database 965:Einführung in die Geologie Deutschlands 2676: 703:activity resulted in the formation of 1668: 1428: 1257: 684:which intruded into a thin veneer of 586:name for Elcho Island, occurs on the 1144:Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 844:participating institution membership 621:is associated with the non-alluvial 423:. Diabase dikes occur in regions of 582:Dolerite, taking its name from the 482:of India, formed at the end of the 272:(3% up to 12% in olivine diabase), 13: 1694: 1290:. comparerocks.com. Archived from 880:The Study of Rocks in Thin Section 644:The vast areas of mafic volcanism/ 474:towards the Midlands, for example 456:British Tertiary Volcanic Province 14: 2710: 1413: 731:Diabase is crushed and used as a 1314:"Stonehenge's Mysterious Stones" 1067: 1031: 639:Yalgoo-Singleton greenstone belt 195:, and ultimately from the Greek 74: 32: 1251: 1242: 1205: 1185: 1135: 1099: 1079: 1043: 1007: 742:and memorials; the base of the 619:Norseman-Wiluna greenstone belt 280:(2%). Accessory and alteration 260:(62%) set in a finer matrix of 1385:10.1080/01977261.2010.11721087 1322:American Geosciences Institute 981: 947: 898: 885: 872: 850: 816: 738:Diabase can be cut for use as 705:dolerite intrusion in Prospect 226: 1: 1258:Allen, George (Spring 2004). 788: 490:, an island off the coast of 521:into economically important 350: 7: 1179:Symposium on Archaean Rocks 804:. British Geological Survey 776: 532:the diabase is entirely of 10: 2715: 882:, Harper & Row, p. 160 862:, Wiley, 20th ed., p. 483 558:Gondwanaland and Australia 2485: 2323: 2110: 1700: 1468: 1164:10.1080/08120099808728413 831:Oxford English Dictionary 744:Marine Corps War Memorial 198: 1121:10.1144/1467-7873/07-132 878:Morehouse, W. W. (1959) 762:farm walls. In northern 590:and continues under the 363:crosscutting horizontal 316:. The texture is termed 1740:Basaltic trachyandesite 1720:Alkali feldspar granite 836:Oxford University Press 733:construction aggregate 726: 680:. Here, the volume of 656:supercontinent in the 598:, including Elcho and 513:region of California, 412: 400: 384: 381:Gettysburg Battlefield 368: 239: 210: 207:comes from the French 190: 187:comes from the French 24: 2130:Banded iron formation 932:10.1515/geo-2017-0012 406: 390: 374: 358: 268:(20–29%), with minor 234: 22: 859:Manual of Mineralogy 648:associated with the 625:mining area between 444:New Jersey Palisades 375:Diabase boulders at 162:(dark mafic glass). 16:Type of igneous rock 1156:1998AuJES..45..571W 923:2017OGeo....9...12N 834:(Online ed.). 658:Southern Hemisphere 635:Super Pit gold mine 506:in Central Africa. 442:which makes up the 427:and often occur in 391:Dolerite rocks and 2486:Specific varieties 1595:Diabase (Dolerite) 783:List of rock types 600:Milingimbi Islands 576:Northern Territory 544:attraction is the 413: 401: 385: 383:, Pennsylvania, US 369: 240: 238:, Northern Ireland 158:which may contain 25: 2699:Subvolcanic rocks 2671: 2670: 1916:Nepheline syenite 1662: 1661: 1657: 1656: 1629:Microgranodiorite 1559:Subvolcanic rocks 1373:Lithic Technology 1235:978-0-521-38083-6 842:(Subscription or 695:columnar jointing 611:Western Australia 425:crustal extension 215:, from the Greek 2706: 2613:Rapakivi granite 2325:Metamorphic rock 2112:Sedimentary rock 1981:Quartz monzonite 1689: 1682: 1675: 1666: 1665: 1471: 1470: 1449: 1442: 1435: 1426: 1425: 1408: 1407: 1364: 1358: 1357: 1355: 1353: 1347: 1339: 1333: 1332: 1330: 1328: 1309: 1303: 1302: 1300: 1299: 1284: 1275: 1274: 1272: 1271: 1260:"Clayton Quarry" 1255: 1249: 1246: 1240: 1239: 1219: 1213: 1209: 1203: 1189: 1183: 1182: 1174: 1168: 1167: 1139: 1133: 1132: 1103: 1097: 1083: 1077: 1071: 1066: 1064: 1062: 1047: 1041: 1035: 1030: 1028: 1026: 1011: 1005: 1004: 1002: 1000: 994: 985: 979: 978: 960: 954: 951: 945: 944: 934: 911:Open Geosciences 902: 896: 889: 883: 876: 870: 854: 848: 847: 839: 827: 820: 814: 813: 811: 809: 798: 670:Ferrar Dolerites 564:geological event 498:area within the 213: 201: 200: 193: 127:subvolcanic rock 112: 111: 108: 107: 104: 101: 98: 95: 92: 89: 86: 83: 80: 67: 66: 63: 62: 59: 56: 53: 50: 47: 44: 41: 38: 2714: 2713: 2709: 2708: 2707: 2705: 2704: 2703: 2684:Aphanitic rocks 2674: 2673: 2672: 2667: 2481: 2425:Pseudotachylite 2319: 2106: 2038:Tephriphonolite 1696: 1693: 1663: 1658: 1653: 1648: 1644: 1636: 1631: 1627: 1619: 1614: 1610: 1602: 1597: 1593: 1585: 1580: 1579: 1571: 1563: 1556: 1542: 1536: 1529: 1523: 1512: 1506: 1499: 1493: 1486: 1480: 1464: 1461:silicon dioxide 1453: 1416: 1411: 1365: 1361: 1351: 1349: 1345: 1341: 1340: 1336: 1326: 1324: 1310: 1306: 1297: 1295: 1286: 1285: 1278: 1269: 1267: 1256: 1252: 1247: 1243: 1236: 1220: 1216: 1210: 1206: 1190: 1186: 1175: 1171: 1140: 1136: 1104: 1100: 1084: 1080: 1060: 1058: 1049: 1048: 1044: 1024: 1022: 1013: 1012: 1008: 998: 996: 992: 986: 982: 975: 961: 957: 952: 948: 903: 899: 890: 886: 877: 873: 855: 851: 841: 821: 817: 807: 805: 800: 799: 795: 791: 779: 729: 652:breakup of the 560: 478:. 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Index


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mafic
holocrystalline
subvolcanic rock
volcanic
basalt
plutonic
gabbro
dikes
sills
aphanitic
chilled margins
tachylite
diorite

Fair Head
texture
euhedral
lath
plagioclase
crystals
clinopyroxene
augite
olivine
magnetite
ilmenite
minerals
hornblende

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