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Norite
Norite
, also known as
orthopyroxene
gabbro
, is a
mafic
intrusive
igneous rock
composed largely of the
calcium
-rich
plagioclase
labradorite
, orthopyroxene, and
olivine
. Norite may be essentially indistinguishable from gabbro without
thin section
study under the
petrographic microscope
. The principal difference between norite and gabbro, however, is the type of
pyroxene
of which it is composed; norite is predominately composed of orthopyroxenes, largely high magnesian
enstatite
or an iron bearing intermediate
hypersthene
, whereas the principal pyroxenes in gabbro are
clinopyroxenes
, generally medially iron-rich
augites
.
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