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Ophiolite is used to describe a type of igneous rock that originates from oceanic crust and the underlying upper mantle
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- an assemblage of mafic and ultramafic rock fragments of the ocean lithosphere that has been tectonically moved onto a continental margin or island
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The suture zone contains a dismembered ophiolite.
These included ophiolite and remnants of a rift system.
This sequence of rocks is called an ophiolite complex.
Its lithology is mainly ophiolite but there are some pelitic zones too.
The main source of rock is ophiolite.
Most worldwide examples relate to ophiolite obduction and the destruction of stable continental margins.
Along these faults lies large section of ophiolite series.
Displacement and assembly of the ophiolite slices therefore probably took place not long after formation.
The mountain consists of ophiolite rocks.
These ophiolite series are widespread in Iran.
The stratigraphic completeness of the ophiolite makes it unique.
A petrological and geochemical study shows that all these rocks belong to a suprasubduction ligurian type ophiolite.
It is noted for its ophiolite reserves.
It is made of mud containing blocks of other stone such as sandstone and ophiolite.
The mantle and the crustal section of the ophiolite are dissociated from the HyMap image.
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Trondhjemite dikes also commonly form part of the sheeted dike complex of an ophiolite.
Second is an ophiolite.
Ophiolite also contains a small amount of TTG rocks.
These are fragments of ophiolite.
Typical ophiolite components are not observed in the Mandula area.
It also is the only oceanic environment with an exposed ophiolite sequence.
The Troodos Ophiolite is exceptional for the completeness of the section of oceanic lithosphere.
Stratigraphic sequence of an ophiolite.
Ophiolite deposited in eastern Corsica during the Eocene period.
None of the swarms can be convincingly modelled as being part of an ophiolite assemblage.
The Coast Range Ophiolite is characterized by obduction of oceanic crust onto land.
Garnet harzburgites are less depleted in the basalt component than most ophiolite harzburgites.
The Ophiolite rocks.
It is tightly folded on a large scale along with the thrusts and the ophiolite complex.
Mantle rocks exposed in the ophiolite are the peridotite varieties of lherzolite, harzburgite and dunite.
Massive sedimentary breccias directly overlie and contain clasts from all units of the ophiolite complex.
Three ultramafic bodies from the Bridge River ophiolite differ markedly from each other.
This development iscompletely different from the one suggested for the Oman ophiolite.
Cap Corse ophiolite.
Paiko is composed of igneous and sedimentary rocks, mainly carbonatite and ophiolite.
The ophiolites are found in serpentinized ultra-mafic masses or sometimes as more complete ophiolite complexes.
It could be an intraoceanic Silurian ophiolite.
Pillow lava formations from an ophiolite sequence, Northern Apennines, Italy.
Eclogites occur with garnet peridotites in Greenland and in other ophiolite complexes.
The rocks of the Jormua Ophiolite formed about 1,950 million years ago in the Paleoproteozoic Era.
The data are compared with those obtained from the Bay of Islands ophiolite complex.
With respect, Ophiolite.
This obducted sequence of ultramafic to mafic rocks is the Semail Ophiolite complex.
This event led to obduction of the Central Sudetic ophiolite in the Devonian period.
The entire area is also a parkland . The main source of rock is ophiolite.
These deposits are now found faulted against the Ophiolite and Franciscan deposits.
Natural emissions of H2 have been described in the vicinity of mid-ocean ridges and ophiolite belts.
Ultramafic rocks of the Hozameen, Bridge River, and Cache Creek ophiolite assemblages show much variety.
The Lizard Complex as an ophiolite.
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