
Layered and Massive Gabbro
The fine layered gabbro is replaced by the more massive rocks; the cut is crossed by a coarse gabbro.
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The fine layered gabbro is replaced by the more massive rocks; the cut is crossed by a coarse gabbro.

Repeated magma inputs interrupted crystallization and created a sequence of layers of different composition.

On the road to the Prodromos reservoir, massive, coarse-grained and layered pyroxenites with separate olivine layers are exposed.


Inclined dykes and light epidosytic bands lie over deformed gabbra rocks.



Dark gray and gray-green lavas are altered by low-temperature processes.

In the Kamara Gorge, large basement lavas, lava flows with columnar separation and hyalokaltites are visible. — Fragmentary material of volcanic glass.

In the classical section of the lower part of the volcanic column of lava and hyalokaltites are crossed by almost vertical dikes.


Seismology has become a way of studying another planet. According to the final report of NASA, the InSight mission device recorded 1319 marsquakes; the mission ended in 2022.