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Episode 392 Ophiolites

History of the Earth by Richard I. Gibson

Mar 20, 2018Science & Medicine

Today’s episode focuses on one of those wonderful jargon words geologists love to use: Ophiolites. It’s not a contrived term like cactolith nor some really obscure mineral like pararammelsbergite. Ophiolites are actually...

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Episode 392 Ophiolites is an episode from History of the Earth by Richard I. Gibson. Today’s episode focuses on one of those wonderful jargon words geologists love to use: Ophiolites. It’s not a contrived term like cactolith nor some really...

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