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The sharp boundary between dunite and harzburgite is associated with a change in the content of orthopyroxene.

A small incision near Troodos Square shows a dunit body inside the harzburgite and a banded clump of chromite.

On the Troodos — Prodromos road, the massive dunite passes into the wehrlite via an altered intermediate zone, and then the wehrlite comes into contact with the coarse-grained…


Eastern strawberry tree — evergreen tree or large shrub with smooth reddish bark. It is often noticed first by the trunk, and only then by the fruit.

The yellow-green color of the part of the daeks is associated with the replacement of the original minerals with an epidote.

Breccia, sand, aleuritic and iron-rich thin precipitation filled the decline of Arakapas.

First plagiogranite was formed, then basalt dykes crossed it, and later both were displaced by the fault.

In the summer of 1990, teacher Athanasios Papadopoulos began to create a museum in Galata. Residents of the village and surroundings handed over things that until recently constituted…


A place for a picnic “Gephyri ys Panagias” — Mitsero / Platanistas.