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The Animaqen ophiolite belt, controlled by the south Kunlun fault zone, represents the location of the ancient plate suture line. Even though the ophiolite sequence has been disrupted by faulting, the ultramafic rocks, gabbro, diabase and basalt of the Animaqen ophiolite have been proved to be respectively the metamorphic peridotite and the ultramafic cumulate, the mafic cumulate, the sheeted dike and the mafic exrusive rocks of the typical ophiolite suite. The Animaqen ophiolite is a fragment of the Tethys oceanic crust.
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Project supported by the Key Program of the 8th Five-Year Plan of China
Synopsis of the first author Zhu Yude, associated professor, born in 1949, received Ph. D degree in 1992, majoring in structural petrology and ore deposit, has published 15 papers, such as “The compositional and voluminal variation of Dawangshan granite during dynamometamorphism”.
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Zhu, Y., Peng, E. The animaqen ophiolite in Qinghai Province. J. Cent. South Univ. Technol. 3, 67–69 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02652063
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02652063