Troodos Ophiolite

The Troodos Ophiolite on the island of Cyprus represents a Late Cretaceous spreading axis (mid-ocean ridge) that has since been uplifted due to its positioning on the overriding Anatolian plate at the Cyprus arc and ongoing subduction to the south of the Eratosthenes Seamount.[1]

  1. ^ Robertson, Alastair H.F (1998). "Tectonic significance of the Eratosthenes Seamount: a continental fragment in the process of collision with a subduction zone in the eastern Mediterranean (Ocean Drilling Program Leg 160)". Tectonophysics. 298 (1–3): 63–82. Bibcode:1998Tectp.298...63R. doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00178-4.

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