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Ordovician ophiolite in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland Chromitic serpentinite, Bay of Islands Ophiolite, Lewis Hills, Newfoundland. An ophiolite is a section of Earth's oceanic crust and the underlying upper mantle that has been uplifted and exposed, and often emplaced onto continental crustal rocks.
The Samail Ophiolite, also known as the Semail Ophiolite, is a large, ancient geological formation in Oman and the United Arab Emirates in the Arabian Peninsula. [2] It is one of the world's largest and best-exposed segments of oceanic crust , made of volcanic rocks and ultramafic rocks from the Earth's upper mantle that was overthrust onto the ...
Bay of Islands Ophiolite in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987 because of its superbly exposed complete ophiolite stratigraphic sequence [7] Thetford Mines ophiolite Complex (Thetford Mines, Cantons de l'Est, Québec, Canada) [ 8 ] [ 9 ]
The Fidalgo ophiolite or Fidalgo complex is a Jurassic-aged ophiolite sequence located in the San Juan Islands of northwest Washington. [2] The ophiolite complex is a metamorphosed and disrupted ophiolite sequence that contains serpentinized peridotite, layered gabbro, diorite, and plagiogranite, and an overlying sequence of volcanic and sedimentary rocks.
The Dun Mountain ophiolite belt is composed of a typical ophiolite sequence of ultramafic rocks overlain by a plutonic then volcanic sequence, and finally by conglomerates and other sedimentary rocks of the Maitai Group. The unaltered ultramafic rocks are restricted to three massifs, Dun Mountain, the Red Hills and Red Mountain, elsewhere they ...
The Zambales Ophiolite Complex (also called Zambales Ophiolite) is a large, well-preserved exposure of oceanic crust located in the western portion of Luzon Island, Philippines. [1] It is considered one of the best-preserved and most studied ophiolites , offering valuable insights into the formation and evolution of oceanic crust and the ...
One of the main drivers of this ophiolite dismemberment is the active San Andreas fault. Kinematic reconstructions of the ophiolite fragments show that the Jurassic Coast Range Ophiolite retains its original lithospheric coherence, meaning geologists are able to re-construct how the ophiolites have been moved by faults moved since its genesis.
Geologic map depicting the Smartville Complex (in brown) and other accreted terranes in California. [1]The Smartville Block, also called the Smartville Ophiolite, Smartville Complex, or Smartville Intrusive Complex, is a geologic terrane formed in the ocean from a volcanic island arc that was accreted onto the North American Plate during the late Jurassic (~160–150 million years ago).