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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]
CY. Internet TLD. .cy [ e ] Cyprus[ f ] (/ ˈsaɪprəs / ⓘ), 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 ...
Troodos Mountains. Troodos (sometimes spelled Troödos; Greek: Τρόοδος [ˈtɾo.oðos]; Turkish: Trodos Dağları ['tɾo.dos]) is the largest mountain range in Cyprus, located in roughly the center of the island. Its highest peak is Mount Olympus (Greek: Όλυμπος), also known as Chionistra (Greek: Χιονίστρα), at 1,952 ...
As of 2021, there are three World Heritage Sites in Cyprus, all of which are cultural sites. The first site to be listed was Paphos in 1980. In 1985, the Painted Churches in the Troodos Region were listed. The original nomination included nine churches, an additional one was added to the site in 2001. The most recent site added to the list was ...
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 ...
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 ...
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)