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The crust is composed of sheeted dykes, pillow basalts and marine sediments. The sediments are composed of deep-water shales and radiolarite. The mantle parts of the lithosphere are made of harzburgite and dunite (both peridotites), with about 50 to 80% of the minerals now transformed into serpentinite. [4]
Geography of Cyprus. Cyprus is an island in the Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the third-largest island in the Mediterranean, after the Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia, and the 80th-largest island in the world by area. It is located south of the Anatolian Peninsula, yet it belongs to the Cyprus Arc. [1]
Cyprus [f] (/ ˈ s aɪ p r ə s / ⓘ), officially the Republic of Cyprus, [g] is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. It is geographically a part of West Asia, but its cultural ties and geopolitics are overwhelmingly Southeast European. Cyprus is the third largest and third-most populous island in the Mediterranean.
Cypriot cult image. 'Red Polished Ware', 2100–2000 BC. Museum zu Allerheiligen. Prior to the arrival of humans in Cyprus, only four terrestrial mammal species were present on the island, including the Cypriot pygmy hippopotamus and the Cyprus dwarf elephant, which were much smaller than their mainland ancestors as a result of insular dwarfism, with the other species being the genet Genetta ...
Cyprus – Eurasian island country located in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel and north of Egypt. Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and the Republic of Cyprus is a member state of the European Union.
Geology of Northern Cyprus (2 P) Pages in category "Geology of Cyprus" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
This category has the following 23 subcategories, out of 23 total. Geography of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (1 C, 14 P) Geography of Northern Cyprus (9 C, 1 P)
Geologic Summary. Troodos Massif: The world's most heavily studied ophiolite, in the south and center of Northern Cyprus. Lower units include harzburgite interpreted as deformed mantle, overlain by massive gabbro, with dunite bodies left from mantle diapirs. It also includes trondjemite bodies, plagio-granite, chromite and dikes metamorphosed ...