Diabase is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 176 anagrams from letters in diabase (aabdeis).
1810-20; French, equivalent to dia- (error for di- two) + base base1
In Arizona chrysotile is found in veins in cherty limestone, associated with diabase intrusives.
The minerals of diabase are the same as those of dolerite, viz.
One, a complete specimen composed of a diabase, was shaped by pecking followed by grinding.
Away from the ranges, the bowlders are generally of some crystalline rock, such as granite and diabase.
The diabase forms the Bruxie and Leys Hills and some minor elevations.
At St Andreasberg in the Harz it occurs both in diabase and in the veins of silver ore.
These are caused either by old intrusions of diabase and gabbro which have undergone modifications, or by later ones of dolerite.
Curaao consists of eruptive rocks, chiefly diorite and diabase, and is surrounded by coral reefs.
Quartz porphyry, diabase and diorite appear in the Ardennes.
It is traversed in places by dikes and sills of diabase or dolerite, while bosses of more or less altered gabbro rise through it.