Ophiolite
A slice of oceanic lithosphere thrust onto a continent during a collision: from bottom to top, peridotites, gabbros, dikes and pillow lavas. The Troodos ophiolite in Cyprus is the most studied.
Composition
Rocks: harzburgite, gabbro, diabase, basalt, sometimes boninite; Cyprus-type massive sulfides.
Sources
In the atlas
- Luobusa China