Global distribution
of ophiolite complexes
Geological
Map of Newfoundland showing the location of the Bay of Islands ophiolite
Geological map
of the Bay of Islands ophiolite
Western Newfoundland,
view of the Table Mountain mantle hartzburgite/dunite from Bonne Bay
Lower contact of
the Table Mountain peridotite, Western Newfoundland. Photo
View of the ultramafic
(lower unit ) and gabbro (upper unit) contact at Table Mountain, Trout
Pond, Western Newfoundland. Photo
View of Mount Orford,
Quebec, from the West; summit is composed of diabase and pillow lavas;
base of the mountain is composed of serpentinite and gabbro.
Photo
Ciorneva in the
Italian Alps looking towards France; orange rocks of the foreground are
dunites. Photo
Relatively
undepleted mantle lherzolite exhibiting cpx-spinel segregation layering,
Trout river, Newfoundland, 1972. Photo
Mantle lherzolite
with folded pyroxenite layers (melts), Hare Bay, Newfoundland, 1972. Photo
Thin section (AT7215)
of a 'fertile' lherzolite from a Cordilleran ophiolite, Atlin, B.C., 1972.
Note the large orthopyroxene crystal with lamellae and patches of exsolved
clinopyroxene. Photo
Dunite (69&R4)
with a pod of chromite (10 cm in length), Trout River, Newfoundland, 1969.
Photo
'Restite' veins
of dunite in harzburgite, North West Arm, Newfoundland, 1971. Photo
Contact of ultramafic
cumulates with gabbro cumulates (seismic MOHO), Blow-Me-Down, Newfoundland,
1971. Photo
Wehrlite cumulates
exhibiting graded bedding, Nippers Harbour, Newfoundland, 1970. Photo
Anorthosite-chromitite
cumulate layers (LH1972), Lewis Hills, Newfoundland, 1972. Photo
Anorthosite-dunite-troctolite
cumulates, Lewis Hills,, Newfoundland, 1972. Photo
Troctolite with
euhedral cumulate olivine and intercumulus plagioclase, Bracco, Italy,
1971. Photo
Large intercumulus
poikilitic orthopyroxene (shiny area) enveloping cumulate olivine, Bracco,
Italy, 1971.
Photo
Branching growth
of cumulate clinopyroxene (Herring-bone structure), Bracco, Italy, 1971.
Photo
Layered gabbro,
Mont Genevre, France, 1974 (35). Photo
Interlayered mafic
and felsic gabbro cut by a diabase dike, Nippers Harbour, Newfoundland,
1971 (33) Photo
Sheeted diabase
unit, SE of Kitty lake, Nippers Harbour, Newfoundland, 1973 (34). Photo
Shore line exposures
of sheeted diabase, Nippers Harbour, Newfoundland,1969 (1). Photo
Sheeted diabase,
Nippers Harbour, Newfoundland, 1979 (10). Photo
Sheeted diabase
in gabbro, near Disraeli, Quebec, 1978. Photo
Sheeted diabase
with pillow lava screen, near Disraeli, Quebec, 1978 (4). Photo
Sheeted diabase
with pillow lava screen, near Disraeli, Quebec, 1978 (4). Photo
Dike with irregular
contacts (tensile structure) cutting pillow lavas, near Disraeli, Quebec,
1983 (10). Photo
Classic pillow lava
shape, Nippers Harbour, Newfoundland, 1970 (5). Photo
Inverted pillow
lava sequence, Bracco, Italy, 1971 (20). Photo
Red jasper cherts
and silicified turbidites overlying ophiolite at Nippers Harbour, Newfoundland,
1970 (17). Photo
Thin section (STA7),
detrital chromite grains in Arenig foreland flysch derived from the Bay
of Islands ophiolite, Blow Me Down Brook, Newfoundland.
Photo
Manganese deposit
in Quaternary deposits located on the eastern margin of the Red Sea, Sudan,
1981 (4). Photo
