A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Oceanic detachment fault, Trodos Ophiolite, Cyprus |
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| Description | Oceanic detachment fault, Trodos Ophiolite, Cyprus. Image shows the first recognized extensional detachment fault found within an ophiolite. The detachment separates sheeted dikes (lower part of oceanic layer 2) from the underlying grabbro of the plutonic complex (oceanic layer 3). Dikes above the detachment are presently near-horizontal and were tilted by normal faulting to this position from originally vertical attitudes. We have shown this with paleomagnetic data. |
| Lithostratigraphy | Trodos ophiolite |
| Location | Cyprus |
| Photographer | Robert Varga. 1995. |
| Collection | Keck Structural Geology Slide Set #RV1. |
| Key words | fault, ophiolite, Cyprus, detachment fault |
| Tech details | 593 KB. Outcrop. |
| GeoDIL number | 3065 |
| Copyright | Robert Varga |