List of ophiolites
Ophiolites are sequences of mafic to ultramafic rock generally believed to represent ancient oceanic lithosphere. They are distributed all across the world being all of them located at present or past orogenic belts, sites of mountain building processes.
A pillow lava from an ophiolite sequence, Northern Apennines, Italy
Northern Europe
- Jormua Ophiolite in Finland
- Leka Ophiolite, Scandinavian Mountains, Norway
- Løkken Ophiolite, Scandinavian Mountains, Norway
- Karmoy ophiolite, Scandinavian Mountains, Norway
- Solund-Stavfjord Ophiolite, Scandinavian Mountains, Norway
- Lizard complex in Cornwall, United Kingdom
- Ballantrae Ophiolite Complex, Girvan-Ballantrae area, SW Ayrshire, Scotland
- Shetland Ophiolite, Unst and Fetlar, Shetland, Scotland
Mediterranean and Peri-Arabic
- Internal Ligurian Ophiolites in Northern Apennines, Italy
- Troodos Ophiolite in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus
- Kizildag ophiolite, southern Turkey
- Cap Corse ophiolite, Corsica, France
- Vourinos and Pindos Ophiolites in Northern Greece and their northern extensions (numerous ophiolite bodies) in Albania, Serbia and Bosnia
- Ronda peridotite, Southern Spain
- Lherz Massif, France
- Beni Bousera ophiolite, Morocco
- Golyamo Kamenyane Complex, Bulgaria[1]
- Semail Ophiolite in Oman and the United Arab Emirates
- Makran Ophiolite, Makran, Iran and Pakistan
- Zagros ophiolite, Zagros mountains, Iran
- Iraq Zagros ophiolites, Zagros mountains, Iraq, includes; Cretaceous ophiolites (Mawat,Penjwen, Pushtashan, Hassanbig and Bulfat) and Eocene ophiolites (Rayat and Qalander).
Circumpacific
Asia-Pacific
- Zambales Ophiolite in western Luzon, Philippines
- Angat Ophiolite in eastern Luzon, Philippines
- Rapu-rapu Ophiolite Complex in eastern Philippines
- Southeast Bohol Ophiolite Complex in Bohol, Philippines
- Macquarie Island, Tasmania, Australia
- Palawan Ophiolite, western Philippines
- Papuan ophiolite in Papua New Guinea
- Yakuno, Horokanai, and Poroshiri, three full ophiolite sequences in Japan
- Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt, South Island, New Zealand
- Naga-Manipur Ophiolite Complex,India
North American Cordillera
- Coast Range Ophiolite, in the California Coast Ranges from Santa Barbara through San Francisco Counties, California.
- Point Sal ophiolite, Point Sal, Santa Barbara County, Southern California.
- California ophiolite, Smartville Block of the Sierra Nevada, and the Klamath Mountains, northern California
- Josephine Ophiolite in Southern Oregon
- Canyon Mountain and Sparta Complexes ophiolite, Northeastern Oregon
- Payson Ophiolite, Payson, Arizona.
- Metchosin Igneous Complex ophiolite, southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
- Ingalls Terrane ophiolite, Cascade Mountains, Washington
- Fidalgo Complex ophiolite, Skagit County, Washington.
Mexico and the Caribbean
- Olivos ophiolite, Chihuahua, Mexico
- Vizcaino ophiolite, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Cuban ophiolititic belt
- Puerto Rican ophiolite
Andes
- La Tetilla Ophiolite Complex, near Popayán, Colombian Cordillera Occidental (Andes)[2]
- Famatinian Ophiolites, near Famatina in the Argentine Andes.
- Tapo ophiolite, Peru[1]
- Rocas Verdes ophiolites, Patagonian Andes, Chile[3]
- Tortuga ophiolite complex
- Sarmiento ophiolite complex
Eastern North America
- Betts Cove, St. Anthony, Little Port, Advocate, Gander River, Pipestone Pond, Great Bend and Annieopsquotch ophiolites in Newfoundland
- 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
- Stark's Knob Ophiolite in New York State
Brazil
- Quatipuru ophiolite, Brazil
- Cerro Mantiqueiras Ophiolite, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil[4]
References
- 1 2 Fernando Gervilla, Isabel Fanlo , Thomas N. Kerestedjian , Ricardo Castroviejo , Jose Maria, Gonzalez-Jimenez, Jose Alberto Padron, and José Feliciano Rodrigues. 2011. Alteration Mechanism of Chromite in Podiform Chromitites from two Metamorphosed Ophiolitic Complexes: Golyamo Kamenyane (Bulgaria)and Tapo (Peru)
- ↑ P. Spadea, M. Delaloye, A. Espinosa, A. Orrego and J. J. Wagner. Ophiolite Complex from La Tetilla, Southwestern Colombia, South America
- ↑ Charles Stern and Maarten de Wit. Verdes ophiolites,, southernmost South America
- ↑ LÉO A. HARTMANN and FARID CHEMALE-JÚNIOR. 2003. Mid amphibolite facies metamorphism of harzburgites in the Neoproterozoic Cerro Mantiqueiras Ophiolite, southernmost Brazil
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