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.
Norite occurs with gabbro and other mafic to ultramafic rocks in layered intrusions which are often associated with platinum orebodies such as in the Bushveld Igneous Complex in South Africa, the Skaergaard igneous complex of Greenland, and the Stillwater igneous 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 second-largest nickel mining region. Norite is a common rock type of the Apollo samples. On a smaller scale, norite can be found in small localized intrusions such as the Gombak Norite in Bukit Gombak, Singapore. It is also plentiful in the Egersund intrusion area of southwestern Norway, with titanium deposits to the east.
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by: N.E.R.D.It just happend
So what?
But they're all laughing
What's up?
[Hook]
Why the tears? have no fear
We are here for you
But I know how you feel, I know how you feel
When no one cares
[Chorus]
If you feel just like I feel, PUSH PEOPLE
Everything's plastic, nothing's real, PUSH PEOPLE
Fuck your lover makes not steal, PUSH PEOPLE
We just dancin' no big deal, PUSH PEOPLE
Hey just let the bullshit pass, PUSH PEOPLE
Or we'll skateboard your ass, PUSH PEOPLE
Got my bones, my wheels, PUSH PEOPLE
We just dancin' no big deal, PUSH PEOPLE
Break out [x11]
All you can be is just you cause
You're real not the plasic type.
But reality sets and
You're stuck in this plastic life.
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Why the tears
We're all here for you
But I know how you feel, I know how you feel
And I don't care.
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Break out [x11]
Hey!
Shit happens, hey, just blow it off, whooo,
Man, but don't it make you feel rage, rage, yeah, whoo
Hey!
Shit happens, u-huh, just blow it off, whooo,
Yeah, but don't it make you feel rage ,rage ,yeah
Just as long we got the same thing in our veins,
You and I ,we are both the same
I'll bail you out and show you what you should see