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Noun Concept
Categories: Plate tectonics, Marine geology, long volume value, Igneous rocks
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ophiolite  ophiolites  ophiolitic
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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. Wikipedia
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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. Wikipedia
Obducted oceanic crust Wikidata
An assemblage of mafic and ultramafic rock fragments of the ocean lithosphere that has been tectonically moved onto a continental margin or island. Wiktionary
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geological structure
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Troodos Ophiolite
Samail Ophiolite
Jormua Ophiolite
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