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Norite
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Today, I felt lucky. So I put 'Norite' into google. I was expecting there to be a blank page or something small about a gaiaonline member. But, I saw a Wikipedia article instead, so I clicked on it and here's what I got:

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Norite is a mafic intrusive igneous rock composed largely of the calcium rich plagioclase labradorite and hypersthene with olivine. Norite is essentially undistinguishable from gabbro without thin section study under the petrographic microscope. It occurs with gabbro and other mafic to ultramafic rocks in layered intrusions which are often associated with platinum orebodies such as in South Africa, the Skaergaard complex of Greenland, and the Stillwater complex in Montana, USA. Norite is also the basal igneous rock of the Sudbury Basin complex in Ontario which is the site of a meteorite impact and the world's largest nickel mining region. Norite is a common rock type of the Apollo lunar samples. On a smaller scale Norite can be found in small localised formations such as the Gombak Norite in Bukit Gombak, Singapore.


I made up the name Norite. I had never ever heard it before. And somehow, somehow, I had made up a name that was an actual word. Crazy stuff, huh?





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gamekrazd
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comment Commented on: Fri May 18, 2007 @ 01:33am
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