Noun:

డాల్రైట్,

dolerite's Usage Examples:

off from the Plateau by a dolerite rim and fed entirely from the uncharacteristically heavy snow falling within its own catchment.

the Beardmore, Shackleton and Liv, the Axel Heiberg is in effect an alpine glacier, cut off from the Plateau by a dolerite rim and fed entirely from the.

the Furneaux Group, is a 313-hectare (770-acre) unpopulated granite and dolerite island, located in Bass Strait, lying north-west of the Cape Barren Island.

This is disputed by others, and Williams-Thorpe and others from the Open University have suggested that the Stonehenge bluestones came from at least twenty different places, with the Carn Goedog dyke about one mile to the west as the most likely source for the spotted dolerites.

Common examples of subvolcanic rocks are diabase, quartz-dolerite, micro-granite and diorite.

7-acre) dolerite island and game reserve located at the southern entrance to the D"Entrecasteaux.

The island is formed of Jurassic dolerite.

Slightly older dolerites and gabbros in the Avalonian of Newfoundland have a more primitive oceanic affinity.

əbeɪs/) or dolerite or microgabbro is a mafic, holocrystalline, subvolcanic rock equivalent to volcanic basalt or plutonic gabbro.

include diabase (also known as dolerite) and porphyry.

The Friars are four steep dolerite rocks, with a combined area of about 17 ha (42 acres), in south-eastern Australia.

excavated when the fossils were found, with the dolerite being used to macadamize nearby roads.

Like most peaks in the area it is capped with Jurassic dolerite.