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Definition of Ophiolites
1. ophiolite [n] - See also: ophiolite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ophiolites
Literary usage of Ophiolites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of Progress for by Geological Survey of Canada (1857)
"By such an agency we may explain the production of the ophiolites of Syracuse
... ophiolites.—The crystalline limestones and dolomites of this formation are ..."
2. Mineral Physiology and Physiography: A Second Series of Chemical and by Thomas Sterry Hunt (1891)
"This explanation becomes more plausible when we reflect that within the great
basin over which these ophiolites are met with, the paleozoic and mesozoic ..."
3. Annual Report by Geological Survey of Canada (1857)
"By such an agency we may explain the production of the ophiolites of Syracuse
... ophiolites.—The crystalline limestones and dolomites of this formation are ..."
4. Report of Progress by Geological Survey of Canada (1857)
"By such an agency we may explain the production of the ophiolites of Syracuse
... ophiolites.—The crystalline limestones and dolomites of this formation are ..."
5. The Canadian Record of Science by Natural History Society of Montreal (1863)
"The crystalline limestones and ophiolites of • eastern Massachusetts, which are
probably of ... The same thing is true with regard to the ophiolites and the ..."
6. Alaskas Mineral Resources--Annual Report 1991 edited by Diedra Bohn, Jill L. Schneider (1992)
"The second proposal encompasses a joint comparative study of the geologic setting
and age of ophiolites and their host terranes in Alaska and the former ..."
7. Natural Emirates: Wildlife and Environment of the United Arab Emirates by Peter Vine (1996)
"The igneous rocks of the mantle and oceanic crust are collectively called ophiolites.
The ophiolites of the UAE now lie above the rocks of the Arabian ..."
8. A Preliminary Report on the Geology of New Brunswick: Together with a by New Brunswick Geological Survey, Henry Youle Hind (1865)
"The normal ophiolites are nearly pure serpentine, while some are mixtures of
serpentine and carbonate of lime (calcareous ophiolites,) and others dolomitic ..."
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