List of ophiolites

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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.

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Ophiolites are common in orogenic belts of Mesozoic age, like those formed by the closure of the Tethys Ocean. Ophiolites in Archean and Paleoproterozoic domains are rare. [1]

A pillow lava from an ophiolite sequence, Northern Apennines, Italy ItalyPillowBasalt.jpg
A pillow lava from an ophiolite sequence, Northern Apennines, Italy

Mediterranean and Peri-Arabic

Tibetan

Circumpacific

Asia-Pacific

North American Cordillera

Mexico and the Caribbean

Andes

  • Tortuga ophiolite complex
  • Sarmiento ophiolite complex

Brazil

Eastern North America

Northern Europe

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Peltonen, P. (2005). "Ophiolites". In Lehtinen, Martti; Nurmi, Pekka A. (eds.). Precambrian Geology of Finland. Elsevier Science. pp. 237–277. ISBN   9780080457598.
  2. ↑ Dilek, Yildirim; Furnes, Harald; Shallo, Minella (January 2008). "Geochemistry of the Jurassic Mirdita Ophiolite (Albania) and the MORB to SSZ evolution of a marginal basin oceanic crust" . Lithos. 100 (1–4): 174–209. Bibcode:2008Litho.100..174D. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2007.06.026.
  3. 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)
  4. ↑ P. Spadea, M. Delaloye, A. Espinosa, A. Orrego and J. J. Wagner. Ophiolite Complex from La Tetilla, Southwestern Colombia, South America
  5. ↑ Stern, Charles R.; De Wit, Maarten J. (2013). "Rocas Verdes ophiolites, southernmost South America: remnants of progressive stages of development of oceanic-type crust in a continental margin back-arc basin". In Dilek, Y.; Robinson, P.T. (eds.). Ophiolites in Earth History. Geological Society, London, Special Publications. pp. 665–683. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.1026.5572 .
  6. ↑ LÉO A. HARTMANN and FARID CHEMALE-JÚNIOR. 2003. Mid amphibolite facies metamorphism of harzburgites in the Neoproterozoic Cerro Mantiqueiras Ophiolite, southernmost Brazil
  7. ↑ Dewey, J.F.; Casey, J.F. (2013). "The sole of an ophiolite: the Ordovician Bay of Islands Complex, Newfoundland". Journal of the Geological Society. 170 (5): 715–722. Bibcode:2013JGSoc.170..715D. doi:10.1144/jgs2013-017. S2CID   130035523.
  8. ↑ Schroetter, J.–M.; Pagé, P.; Bédard, J.H.; Tremblay, A.; Bécu, V. (2003). "Forearc extension and sea-floor spreading in the Thetford Mines Ophiolite Complex". In Robinson, P.T.; Dilek, Y. (eds.). Ophiolites in Earth's History. Special Publications of the Geological Society. Vol. 218. pp. 231–251. doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.218.01.13. ISBN   9781862391451. S2CID   140632035.
  9. 1 2 3 Schroetter, J.–M.; Bédard, J.H.; Tremblay, A. (2005). "Structural evolution of the Thetford Mines Ophiolite Complex, Canada: Implications for the southern Québec ophiolitic belt". Tectonics. 24 (1): n/a. Bibcode:2005Tecto..24.1001S. doi: 10.1029/2003TC001601 .
  10. ↑ Dubacq, B.; Soret, M.; Jewison, E.; Agard, P. (2019). "Early subduction dynamics recorded by the metamorphic sole of the Mt. Albert ophiolitic complex (Gaspé, Quebec)" (PDF). Lithos. 334–335: 161–179. Bibcode:2019Litho.334..161D. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2019.03.019. S2CID   133847795.
  11. ↑ Guice, George L.; Ackerson, Michael R.; Holder, Robert M.; George, Freya R.; Browning-Hanson, Joseph F.; Burgess, Jerry L.; Foustoukos, Dionysis I.; Becker, Naomi A.; Nelson, Wendy R.; Viete, Daniel R. (2021). "Suprasubduction zone ophiolite fragments in the central Appalachian orogen: Evidence for mantle and Moho in the Baltimore Mafic Complex (Maryland, USA)". Geosphere. 17 (2). The Geological Society of America: 561–581. Bibcode:2021Geosp..17..561G. doi: 10.1130/GES02289.1 .
  12. ↑ Derbyshire, E.J.; O'Driscoll, B.; Lenaz, D.; Zanetti, A.; Gertisser, R. (2019). "Chromitite petrogenesis in the mantle section of the Ballantrae Ophiolite Complex (Scotland)" (PDF). Lithos. 344–345: 51–67. Bibcode:2019Litho.344...51D. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2019.06.013. S2CID   197578253.
  13. ↑ Pedersen, R.B.; Dunning, G. (1997). "Evolution of arc crust and relations between contrasting sources: U-Pb (age), Nd and Sr isotope systematics of the ophiolitic terrain of SW Norway". Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 128 (1): 1–15. Bibcode:1997CoMP..128....1P. doi:10.1007/s004100050289. S2CID   140175898.
  14. 1 2 3 Furnes, H.; Dilek, Y.; Pedersen, R.B. (2012). "Structure, geochemistry, and tectonic evolution of trench-distal backarc oceanic crust in the western Norwegian Caledonides, Solund-Stavfjord ophiolite (Norway)". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 124 (7–8): 1027–1047. Bibcode:2012GSAB..124.1027F. doi:10.1130/B30561.1.
  15. ↑ Strachan, R.A.; Linnemann, U.; Jeffries, T.; Drost, K.; Ulrich, J. (2014). "Armorican provenance for the mélange deposits below the Lizard ophiolite (Cornwall, UK): evidence for Devonian obduction of Cadomian and Lower Palaeozoic crust onto the southern margin of Avalonia". International Journal of Earth Sciences. 103 (5): 1359–1383. Bibcode:2014IJEaS.103.1359S. doi:10.1007/s00531-013-0961-x. S2CID   129361445.
  16. ↑ Papapavlou, K.; Strachan, R.A.; Storey, D.; Bullen, D. (2021). "Tectonic significance of a supra-ophiolitic sedimentary cover succession, Unst, Shetland, Scottish Caledonides: insights from the U-Pb-Hf detrital zircon record". Journal of the Geological Society. 178 (5): jgs2020-169. Bibcode:2021JGSoc.178..169P. doi:10.1144/jgs2020-169. S2CID   233813588.

5 - Forearc extension and sea-floor spreading in the Thetford Mines Ophiolite complex (link : https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=fr&user=sWm-LdoAAAAJ&cstart=20&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=sWm-LdoAAAAJ:B2rIPIGFPLEC)

6 - Structural evolution of the Thetford Mines Ophiolite Complex, Canada: implications for the southern Québec ophiolitic belt (link : https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=fr&user=sWm-LdoAAAAJ&cstart=20&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=sWm-LdoAAAAJ:u0Mu_IsstPMC)

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