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Ultrabasic Pillow Lavas from Cyprus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

I. G. Gass
I. G. Gass
Affiliation:
Geological Survey Department, Nicosia, Cyprus.
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Abstract

Small isolated masses of highly olivine-rich lavas within a dominantly basaltic series of pillowed flows have been found in the northern foothills of the Troodos Igneous Massif. The rock is characterized by abundant phyric olivine usually set in a glassy, basaltic groundmass. Both intrusive and extrusive varieties of the rock have been found. It is suggested that the rock originated as a melt, possibly from the Troodos ultrabasic complex. Comparison is made with the serpentine lavas of Turkey.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 95 , Issue 3 , June 1958 , pp. 241 - 251
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1958

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