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Gabbro
Gabbro
refers to a large group of dark, often
phaneritic
(coarse-grained),
mafic
intrusive
igneous rocks
chemically equivalent to
basalt
. It forms when molten
magma
is trapped beneath the
Earth
's surface and slowly cools into a
holocrystalline
mass.
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