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THE Troodos igneous complex of Cyprus (Fig. 1) has been claimed to be a piece of Mesozoic oceanic crust and upper mantle thrust up on land1,2. Petrological studies have demonstrated that the rocks belong to the ophiolite suite3 and recent structural and petrological work4 has highlighted the resemblance between these rocks and rocks that have been dredged from the deep ocean and are believed to constitute the oceanic crust and uppermost mantle. The oceanic crust is chiefly recognized by its distinctive velocity structure (Table 1) revealed by seismic refraction experiments at sea5.
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MATTHEWS, D., LORT, J., VERTUE, T. et al. Seismic Velocities at the Cyprus Outcrop. Nature Physical Science 231, 200–201 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/physci231200a0
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