Diabase
At a glance
- Type
- Rock
- Group
- Igneous rock
- Crystal system
- None (a rock)
- Hardness
- Hard (5.5 to 7.5)
- Density
- Medium (2.5 to 3.2)
- Occurs in
- Igneous rocks
- Foliation
- Not layered
- Colour
- Grey, Black, Green
- Lustre
- Dull
- Use
- Building
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- Diabase is the same kind of rock as dolerite; the two names are simply used in different countries.
- The Palisades cliffs along the Hudson River near New York are a huge sheet of diabase.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q753016 · All stones · All entries