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The 20 pages that link to Ophiolite, each with the reason it gives.

• Oceanic crustRelated: Ophiolites provide accessible examples of crust usually hidden beneath the sea.

• Zagros MountainsRelated: Ophiolite belts near the Zagros mark remnants of ocean basins consumed before continental collision.

• Igneous rockRelated: Ophiolites provide accessible samples of rocks normally found beneath the ocean.

• Continental collisionRelated: Ophiolites can preserve fragments of the ocean floor caught in a suture.

• Tethys OceanRelated: Ophiolites in Tethyan mountain belts expose pieces of the vanished ocean floor.

• SerpentinizationRelated: Ophiolites preserve accessible exposures of serpentinized mantle rocks.

• Transform faultRelated: Ophiolites preserve fossil transform faults as vertical mantle rock walls.

• Wilson cycleRelated: The rock record that lets geologists prove a vanished ocean once existed.

• PeridotiteRelated: Its mantle section can expose peridotite at Earth's surface.

• Mohorovičić discontinuityRelated: Ophiolites offer geological clues to how crust and mantle meet, though exposure can be incomplete.

• GabbroRelated: Ophiolites preserve gabbro formed within oceanic crust.

• Macquarie IslandRelated: Macquarie Island is a rare example formed through active seafloor spreading rather than later emplacement.

• ActinoliteRelated: Actinolite can form during hydration and metamorphic alteration of ophiolitic rocks.

• SerpentiniteRelated: Serpentinite commonly occurs within ophiolites, preserving evidence of oceanic mantle alteration.

• GreenschistRelated: Ophiolites preserve oceanic rocks that may include greenschist-altered basalt.

• Paleo-Tethys OceanRelated: Ophiolites can preserve remnants of ocean floor from vanished Paleo-Tethyan basins.