Diabases is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 216 anagrams from letters in diabases (aabdeiss).
1810-20; French, equivalent to dia- (error for di- two) + base base1
At St Andreasberg in the Harz it occurs both in diabase and in the veins of silver ore.
Quartz porphyry, diabase and diorite appear in the Ardennes.
Away from the ranges, the bowlders are generally of some crystalline rock, such as granite and diabase.
In Arizona chrysotile is found in veins in cherty limestone, associated with diabase intrusives.
Curaao consists of eruptive rocks, chiefly diorite and diabase, and is surrounded by coral reefs.
The diabase forms the Bruxie and Leys Hills and some minor elevations.
One, a complete specimen composed of a diabase, was shaped by pecking followed by grinding.
It is traversed in places by dikes and sills of diabase or dolerite, while bosses of more or less altered gabbro rise through it.
The minerals of diabase are the same as those of dolerite, viz.
These are caused either by old intrusions of diabase and gabbro which have undergone modifications, or by later ones of dolerite.