The metamorphic sole rocks at the base of mantle peridotites from the Mersin ophiolite consist of amphibolites and metasedimentary lithologies. Mineral parageneses in the metamorphic sole rocks exhibit amphibolite and greenschist facies assemblages. Geothermobarometric studies based on mineral assemblages and chemical compositions of minerals indicate that average metamorphic temperature during...

The petrology and geochemistry of serpentinized harzburgites within the Feather River Ophiolite in northern California were investigated to constrain the origin of serpentinization. Trace-element systematics indicate that serpentinization was associated almost solely with relatively low temperature hydrothermal addition of seawater and not with the addition of metamorphic fluids associated with...

SUMMARY The Semail Ophiolite in eastern Arabia is the largest and best-exposed slice of oceanic lithosphere on land. Detailed knowledge tectonic evolution shallow crust, particular during after ophiolite obduction Late Cretaceous times contrasted by few constraints physical compositional properties middle lower continental crust below obducted units. role inherited, pre-obduction crustal archit...

pillow basalts, belonging to late cretaceous yüksekova complex are extensivelly exposed around elazıg in eastern turkey. this unit is a part of southeastern anatolian ophiolite belt and the southern branch of the neotethys. it represents the products of intra- oceanic subduction volcanism and mainly comprises pillow lavas, dykes and associated with sedimentary rocks. pillow lavas and feeder dyk...