Miocene

Rock type: 
Age: 
20 millions years

Cyprus, Cape Greko. Reefs, bioherm and biostroms. Neogene, lower miocene.

Rock type: 
Age: 
20 millions years

Cyprus, Cape Greko. Reefs, bioherm and biostroms. Neogene, lower miocene.

Rock type: 
Age: 
20 millions years

Cyprus, Cape Greko. Reefs, bioherm and biostroms. Neogene, lower miocene.

Rock type: 
Age: 
20 millions years

Cyprus, Konnos. Reefs, bioherm and biostroms. Neogene, lower miocene.

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Age: 
20 millions years

Cyprus, Konnos. Reefs, bioherm and biostroms. Neogene, lower miocene.

Rock type: 
Age: 
20 millions years

Cyprus, Cyclops Cave. Reefs, bioherm and biostroms. Neogene, lower miocene.

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Age: 
15 millions years

Russia, Khabarovsk Territory, village Krasnoselskoye. Pyroxene-olivine, olivine basalts.  Form a cover. Gray, with a violet hue, dark gray, porous, with a porphyry structure. Phenocrysts are represented by: labrador, olivine, augite, hyperstene. Size from 0.5-1 to 2-3 mm. Epidote and chlorite are formed on pyroxenes. Iddingsite develops on olivine. The pores are usually filled with calcite, zeolites, chlorite and epidote. The age of the rocks is 15 million years. Kizinskaya series.

Rock type: 
Age: 
15 millions years

Russia, Khabarovsk Territory, village Sarapulskoye. The first and second photo, top-down: quaternary clay, sand, loam; basalt weathering crust; pillow lava; the lowest rocks are basalts. They are in the third photo. Pyroxene-olivine, olivine basalts.  Form a cover. Gray, with a violet hue, dark gray, porous, with a porphyry structure. Phenocrysts are represented by: labrador, olivine, augite, hyperstene. Size from 0.5-1 to 2-3 mm. Epidote and chlorite are formed on pyroxenes. Iddingsite develops on olivine. The pores are usually filled with calcite, zeolites, chlorite and epidote.

Rock type: 
Age: 
15 millions years

Russia, Khabarovsk Territory, village Sarapulskoye. Pillow Lava. Pyroxene-olivine, olivine basalts.  Form a cover. The age of the rocks is 15 million years. Kizinskaya series. Miocene.

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Age: 
14 millions years
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Cyprus, Avakas Gorge, Peyia. Alternating chalks and marls. Middle Miocene.