Ultrabasic Pillow Lavas from Cyprus
- 1 February 1958
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Geological Magazine
- Vol. 95 (3) , 241-251
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800066152
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.Keywords
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