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PRESENTATION ON OPHIOLITESPRESENTATION ON OPHIOLITES
BY
HAFIZ SHAHID HUSSAIN YOUSAFZAI
BS 3rd year University of Peshawar Pakistan
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OPHIOLITES
• Ophio is Greek for "snake", lite means "stone" from the Greek lithos.
• The name is given because ophiolites have similarity in colour and texture with snakes, some greenish colour.
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DefinitionDefinition
• An Ophiolite is a section of the Earth's oceanic crust and the underlying upper mantle that has been uplifted or emplaced to be exposed within continental crustal rocks
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History of term OphioliteHistory of term Ophiolite
• The term ophiolite was originally used by Alexandre Brongniart (1813) for an assemblage of green rocks (serpentine, diabase) in
the Alps • Steinmann (1927) later modified its use to include serpentine,
pillow lava, and chert ("Steinmann's trinity"), again based on occurrences in the Alps
• The term was little used in other areas until the late 1950s to early 1960s, with the recognition that this assemblage provided an analog for oceanic crust and the process of seafloor spreading.
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• This recognition was tied to two events: • the observation of magnetic anomaly stripes on the
seafloor, parallel to oceanic ridge systems, interpreted by Frederick Vine and Drummond Matthews (1963) to represent the formation of new crust at the oceanic ridge and its subsequent spreading away from that ridge,
• the observation of a sheeted dike complex within the Troodos ophiolite (Cyprus) which must have formed by 100% intrusion of new magma, since no older wall rocks are preserved within the complex (Gass 1968). Moores and Vine (1971) concluded that the sheeted dike complex at Troodos could only form by a process similar to the seafloor spreading Thus, it became widely accepted that ophiolites represent oceanic crust that had been emplaced on land.
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Formation of OphiolitesFormation of Ophiolites
• Ophilites are fragments of oceanic crust and upper mantle that have been uplifted and emplaced on continental margins.
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Lithology of OphiolitesLithology of Ophiolites
Ophiolites consist of five distinct layers.
The first layer is the youngest and is primarily sediment that was accumulated on the seafloor
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The second layer is pillow basalt. Pillow basalt is characterized by large pillow or cloud shaped blobs. When erupting lava encounters the cold sea water, the outside of the lava immediately crystallizes, forming a thick crust. The extremely hot lava still inside the blob, oozes out of the crust and instantly crystallizes again. As this process of cooling continues, the result is a very thick succession of pillow shaped blobs.
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The next layer consists of sheeted dikes. Sheeted dikes form by rising magma within the earth's crust. As the sheeted dikes cool fractures and cracks occur in the rock. As more magma rises, the magma intrudes through the weak cracks and form new dikes, as this process continues the result is a wall of sheeted dikes
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Sheeted dikes are underlain by gabbro, which is compositionally similar to basalt, but more coarse grained due to the slow cooling process.
The bottommost layer is peridotite, which is believed to be mantle rock composition
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Types of ophiolitesTypes of ophiolites
Most ophiolites can be divided into two groups: • Tethyan ophiolites are characteristic of those
that occur in the eastern Mediterranean sea area, e.g., Troodos in Cyprus and Semail in Oman, which consist of relatively complete rock series corresponding to the classic ophiolite assemblage and which have been emplaced onto a passive continental margin more or less intact (Tethys is the name given to the ancient sea that once separated Europe and Africa).
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• Cordilleran ophiolites are characteristic of those that occur in the mountain belts of western North America (the "Cordillera" or backbone of the continent). These ophiolites sit on subduction zone accretionary complexes (subduction complexes) and have no association with a passive continental margin. These include the Coast Range ophiolite of California, the Josephine ophiolite of the Klamath Mountains (California, Oregon), and ophiolites in the southern Andes of South America. Despite their differences in mode of emplacement, both types of ophiolite are exclusively SSZ in origin (e.g., Shervais, 2001).
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Similarity b/w oceanic crust and ophiolites
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Difference between Oceanic crust Difference between Oceanic crust and Ophiolitesand Ophiolites
ThicknessAgeDensityCompostion
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DensityDensity
• The density of the oceanic crust is low as compare to the ophiolite sequence
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AgeAge
• the age of ophiolite formation is often surprisingly close to the age of their emplacement into the continental crust
• In addition, no ocean crust is older than about 200 million years
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thicknessthickness
• Ophiolites do not have any contrast thickness. They may have even more or less thickness while oceanic crust have 5-7 km thickness.
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CompostionCompostion
Ophiolite lavas are dominated by arc tholeiites, back arc basalt, andesite etc which are different from oceanic crust lavas
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Ophiolites in pakistanOphiolites in pakistan
• Indain palte collision with eurasian plate and afghan plate.
• East-west trending ophiolites due to I.P collision with E.P.
• North-south trending ophiolites due to I.P collision with A.P
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Eurasian block ophiolitesEurasian block ophiolites
• Dargai
• Mingora – bajaware
• Chilas
• etc.
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Afghan block ophiolitesAfghan block ophiolites
• Waziristan
• Zhob
• Muslim Bagh
• Bela
• etc.
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conclusionconclusion
Ophiolites are slabs of ancient oceanic crust obducted/preseved onto the continental crust/earth surface.
They are located in collisional boundaries.Their compostion is sediments, lavas,
sheeted dikes, gabbros, and ultramafic rocks.
Have similarity with oceanic crust.
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The EndThe End