Troodos is a classical ophiolite complex. It is proposed that the serpentinized harzburgites that now form the top of the mountain and represent the originally lowest part of the ophiolite sequence rose as a diapir. This diapiric rise is caused by the pervasive serpentinization of a suboceanic harzburgite, due to rock-sea water interaction. The serpentinization caused a 44% expansion of the roc...

The Bou Azzer district in the central Anti-Atlas of Morocco is world’s unique mining where Co exploited from serpentinite-hosted hydrothermal Co-Ni-Fe arsenide ores. This paper provides first-ever mineralogical and geochemical characterization a suite Fe-rich orebodies found during recent Ait Ahmane area, district. These are lens-like massive disseminated ores fully hosted serpentinites (hereaf...

Crushed serpentinite quarried in Montgomery County, Maryland, has been extensively used for paving roads and other surfaces. The mineral assemblage includes antigorite or lizardite as well as chrysotile and tremolite. Air samples taken in the vicinity of serpentine-paved roads show that chrysotile concentrations are about 10(3) times greater than those typically found in urban ambient air in th...

In the present study, the potential for the alkali–silica reaction (ASR) in radiation shielding concrete containing special aggregates is presented. The tests were performed on two kinds of aggregate: (1) high-density aggregate to absorb the gamma radiation (barite, magnetite, and hematite) and (2) mineral with high bound water content to attenuate the neutron flux (serpentinite). The optical m...

ultramafic rocks are essentially constituted by silicates of magnesium: forsterite, and/or diopside-enstatite; who’s the most common hydrothermal alteration are the serpentinization. to bou azzer, the serpentinisation affected almost all of the ultrabasic rocks. among the phenomena bound to the serpentinisation observed on the ground, we distinguish the magnesium deposits (carbonated serpentini...

baft ophiolite mélange is a part of naein-baft ophiolite (southeast of kerman province in iran). serpentinites from baft ophiolite mélange contain different types of spinels such as chromite, chromespinel, ferritchromite and magnetite which can reveal different stages of evolution in host serpentinites. the compositions of baft chromites show that they belong to podiform chromitites that may ha...

Several large strike slip faults in central and northern California accommodate plate motions through aseismic creep. Although there is no consensus regarding the underlying cause of creep, aqueous fluids mechanically weak, velocity-strengthening minerals appear to play a role. This study integrates field observations thermodynamic modeling examine possible relationships between occurrence serp...

Abstract Petrographic observations combined with mineral compositional analyses constrain the phase relations of prograde metamorphosed serpentinites in Bergell contact aureole (Italy). In a 1500 m profile perpendicular to north-eastern edge intrusion, seven dehydration reactions ran completion. Three previously undocumented have been identified within 70 intrusive contact: olivine + anthophyll...