| 释义 |
ophioˈlitic, a.
[f. ophiolite + -ic.]
Of, pertaining to, or composed of ophiolite.
1909H. B. C. & W. J. Sollas tr. Suess's Face of Earth IV. v. 153 The sheet of the green-rocks (Ophiolitic, Rhaetic, Vindelician sheet; Steinmann). 1911Geol. Mag. Decade V. VIII. 243 The constant association of dialase (spilite), serpentine, and gabbro in the northern Alps with radiolarian cherts has led Steinmann..to regard these ‘ophiolitic eruptives’ as the typical volcanic rocks of abysmal depressions. 1963D. W. & E. E. Humphries tr. Termier's Erosion & Sedimentation xvii. 341 Radiolarites associated with the rocks of the ophiolitic suite (of geosynclines), demonstrate the subordinate role of living organisms in comparison to that played by transported material. 1971Nature 3 Sept. 46/2 One of the most significant drilling results..was the discovery of a Lower Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic pelagic sequence above an ophiolitic oceanic basement, almost identical to the coeval Alpine sequences. |