He did important research with E. M. Moores on the Ophiolite within the Troodos mountains of southern Cyprus.

The island is dominated by two mountain ranges, the Troodos Mountains and the Kyrenia Mountains, and the central plain, the Mesaoria, which is between them.

The Troodos Mountains cover most of the southern and western portions of the island and account for roughly half its area.

It is not as high as the Troodos Mountains, and it occupies substantially less area.

A vineyard in the Troodos Mountains.

* Agros, an example of an agrotourism sustained village, on Troodos Mountains in Cyprus.

Troodos Mountains provide cooler climate for the city

Limassol is the base for many of the island's wine companies, serving the wine-growing regions on the southern slopes of the Troodos Mountains ( of which the most famous is Commandaria ).

In Cyprus the battalion was successful in Operation Golden Rain, destroying a major EOKA terrorist group operating in the Troodos Mountains in 1956.

The Troodos Mountains in Cyprus are known for their snowy vistas and has a large number of accommodations from camping sites to 5 star hotels.

File: Troodos mountains snowing season Winter near Kakopetria village Republic of Cyprus. jpg | Winter in Troodos Mountains near Kakopetria

File: Troodos Mountains ( Cyprus ). jpg | Troodos Mountains

File: Cedars Tripylos. JPG | Forests in Troodos Mountains

File: Pinus brutia forest Cyprus. jpg | Pinus brutia, foothills of Troodos Mountains

* Panoramic virtual tour of the Troodos Mountains

Though only half the height of the Troodos Mountains, the Kyrenia Mountains are rugged and rise abruptly from the Mesaoria plain.

** Cyprus Cedar, Cedrus brevifolia, mostly classified as being distinct to the Cedar of Lebanon, found in the island's Cedar Valley in the Troodos Mountains

It is located in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus.

This recognition was tied to two events: ( 1 ) the observation of magnetic anomaly stripes on the seafloor, parallel to oceanic ridge systems, interpreted by Frederick Vine and Drummond Matthews to represent the formation of new crust at the oceanic ridge and its subsequent symmetric spreading away from that ridge, and ( 2 ) the observation of a sheeted dike complex within the Troodos ophiolite ( Cyprus ) by Ian Graham Gass and co-workers, which must have formed by repetitive extension of crust and intrusion of magma resulting in a formation consisting of 100 % dikes with no older wall rocks preserved within the complex.

Ironically, some of the classic ophiolite occurrences used to relate ophiolites to seafloor spreading ( Troodos in Cyprus, Semail in Oman ) were found to be " SSZ " ophiolites, formed by rapid extension of fore-arc crust during subduction initiation.

Tethyan ophiolites are characteristic of those that occur in the eastern Mediterranean sea area, e. g., Troodos in Cyprus and in the Middle East such as Semail in Oman, which consist of relatively complete rock series corresponding to the classic ophiolite assemblage and which have been emplaced onto a passive continental margin more or less intact ( Tethys is the name given to the ancient sea that once separated Europe and Africa ).

* Gass, I. G. ( 1968 ) Is the Troodos massif of Cyprus a fragment of Mesozoic ocean floor?

* Moores E. M. and F. J. Vine ( 1971 ) The Troodos massif, Cyprus, and other ophiolites as oceanic crust: Evaluation and implications, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 268A, 443-466

* Troodos – Cyprus

Cyprus ( Troodos Mts.

Troodos ( ()) is the biggest mountain range of Cyprus, located in the center of the island.

The Troodos mountain range stretches across most of the western side of Cyprus.

Troodos slowly rose from the sea due to the collision of the African and European tectonic plates, a process that eventually formed the island of Cyprus.

Twenty million years ago Cyprus was actually two islands, which were the predecessors of the Kyrenia and Troodos mountain ranges.

The Troodos mountain is known worldwide for its astounding geology and the presence of undisturbed specimens of ophiolite.

File: Pinus nigra Troodos. jpg | Troodos has many of the oldest trees in the world

The mountain in earlier times had been known under the name of Olympus, but nowadays the highest point of the Troodos Mountains further to the west bears that name.

As the newcomers knew how to work with copper they soon moved to the so-called copperbelt of the island, that is the foothills of the Troodos mountains.

Today, the only remaining forested areas are on the surrounding mountains, particularly the Troodos range.

The observations of the Troodos ophiolite by Ian Graham Gass and co-workers was one of the key points that led to the theory of sea floor spreading.

The A9 connects Nicosia to the west Nicosia district villages and the Troodos mountains.

Moores and Vine concluded that the sheeted dike complex at Troodos could only form by a process similar to the seafloor spreading proposed by Vine and Matthews.

Troodos ' highest peak is Mount Olympus at 1, 952 metres.

* Josephine Ophiolite, Klamath Mountains.

* Bay of Islands Ophiolite in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987 because of its superbly exposed complete ophiolite stratigraphic sequence

To the north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault lie hard Precambrian and Cambrian metamorphic rocks: marine deposits metamorphosed to schists, phyllites and slates, namely the Dalradian Supergroup and the Highland Border Ophiolite suite. To the south and east are Old Red Sandstone conglomerates and sandstones: softer, sedimentary rocks of the Devonian and Carboniferous periods.