ophiolite

It was, he decided in the end, an ophiolite.

The Lizard peninsula is an example of an ophiolite.

Towards the end of the Jurassic period, the ophiolite became covered by chromitite.

The ophiolite is locally rich in copper and chromite orebodies.

The Ballantrae ophiolite sequence was obducted onto the basement margin.

This mechanism would lead to obduction of ophiolite complex if it occurred near a continental margin.

The geologists sense that some funding agencies 'obviously feel that ophiolite work is a waste of time.

Fast geological fact Cyprus is an ophiolite - it rose out of the sea (some 20 million years ago)

It is made of mud containing blocks of other stone such as sandstone and ophiolite.

The models generated from magnetic data suggest that the ophiolite is only slightly displaced vertically by the fault.

The peninsula's geology is the best preserved example of an exposed ophiolite in the United Kingdom.

Thus the five holes will sample, in overlapping segments, the uppermost 4 km of the ophiolite (see map).

But they are nothing compared with the Caledonian and Alpine Ophiolite suites.

There are five oval shaped masses of mafic to ultramafic rocks making up the ophiolite.

These deposits are now found faulted against the Ophiolite and Franciscan deposits.

Second is an ophiolite.

Major metallurgical and refractory chromite mining has occurred in the Zambales ophiolite.

On the right is both sedimentary and metamorphic rock: ophiolite, serpentinite, basalt, jasper.

Her name is Ophiolite, the Ancestor, I mean."

The Troodos mountains are known worldwide for their geology and the presence of undisturbed specimens of ophiolite.

These blocks of mantle peridotite and the metamorphic eclogites are exposed as ophiolite complexes.

Paiko is composed of igneous and sedimentary rocks, mainly carbonatite and ophiolite.

Generally speaking the Morais ophiolite complex is a set of allochthonous units, which include a full range of ultramafic rocks.

Interestingly, the age of ophiolite formation is often surprisingly close to the age of their emplacement into the continental crust.