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Troodos and Mountains
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.
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 ).
* Troodos Ophiolite in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus, in these case its study has partly been economically motivated as the copper deposits of Cyprus are part of the ophiolite.
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.

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

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

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

Troodos and for
The Troodos mountain is known worldwide for its astounding geology and the presence of undisturbed specimens of ophiolite.
* Troodos Square-Troodos mountains ; used as a point of reference for meteorological, ( time ) distance and altitude purposes.
Willibrandi de Oldenburg, for example, visited Stavrovouni in 1211 and wrote, " The cross of the Good Thief is on the highest mountain in Cyprus "-which was wrong, as Stavrovouni is not as high as the Troodos peak.

Troodos and its
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.

Troodos and area
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 ).

Troodos and .
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.
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.
* 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
Cyprus ( Troodos Mts.
Troodos ' highest peak is Mount Olympus at 1, 952 metres.

Mountains and cover
Mountains cover 93 percent of Tajikistan's surface area.
Mountains cover much of northern Thailand and extend along the Myanmar border down through the Kra Isthmus and the Malay Peninsula.
The San Juan and Uncompahgre National Forests cover a large portion of the San Juan Mountains.
The Bear River Mountains, the northernmost extension of the Wasatch Range, which reach as high as 10, 000 feet ( 3048 m ), cover the eastern half of the county.
" The album's singles — the Bruce Johnston-produced original " Bluebirds Over the Mountains " ( Billboard # 64 ) and the Carl Wilson-produced cover of The Ronettes ' " I Can Hear Music "— won lukewarm attention, with the latter reaching # 24 on the Billboard single chart in April 1969 ; the lead track, the Wilson / Love-authored " Do It Again ", an unabashed throwback to the band's earlier surf hits, had been an international hit in the summer of 1968, reaching # 20 in the US charts and # 1 the UK while also scoring well in other countries.
* Mountains: Nationally designated protected areas cover 14. 3 % of the world ’ s mountain areas, and these mountainous protected areas made up 32. 5 % of the world ’ s total terrestrial protected area coverage in 2009.
Yucca Valley is located north of the Joshua Tree National Park, while the little San Bernardino Mountains and many hills cover a large percentage of city area.
The Alleghenies are a sub-region of the much larger Appalachian Mountains, and cover an area of central Pennsylvania, western Maryland and northern West Virginia.
Other singles that achieved moderate success included " If You Asked Me To " ( a cover of Patti LaBelle's song from the 1989 movie Licence to Kill ) which peaked at number-four on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100, the gospel-tinged " Love Can Move Mountains ", and " Nothing Broken But My Heart ".
Following various skirmishes, Cochise and his men were gradually driven into the Dragoon Mountains but were nevertheless able to use the mountains for cover and as a base from which to continue attacks against the white settlements.
Mountains cover the largest parts of the country.
They immediately moved south to the Sussex Mountains to cover the landings.
Further to the northwest near the Koh-i-Baba mountain range, the higher altitudes of the Sulaiman Mountains are in alpine meadow ecoregion, characterized by meadows and willows, as well as blue pines which cover the summits.
He had more than 40 miles of snow sheds built to cover the tracks in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, to prevent the tracks from getting covered with snow in the winter.
Pine and juniper forests cover 35 % of Eastern Oregon, much in the mountains that include the Blue Mountains, Strawberry Mountains, Wallowa Mountains, Trout Creek Mountains, Ochoco Mountains, and Steens Mountain.
Under cover of fire and smoke spewing forth from Ered Engrin, the Mountains of Iron, Morgoth sent forth an Orc-host against Dorthonion flanked east and west by armies of numerous small bands of Orcs.
Its name is derived from the Rhodope Mountains, which cover the northern part of its territory.
The eastern Rhodope Mountains cover the northern part of the regional unit.
* John Fogerty's first solo album, released in 1973, is called The Blue Ridge Rangers, and also contains a cover of " Blue Ridge Mountains Blues ".
* California interior chaparral and woodlands In central interior California surrounding the California Central Valley cover the foothills and the Transverse Ranges and Sierra Nevada Mountains.

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