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A dismembered metamorphosed ophiolite on Timor is connected with Jurassic rifting of Australia's northwestern margin. The rift developed into an ocean basin which carried a microcontinental block northwards. During the middle to late Cretaceous the block accreted to South-east Asia and experienced a low grade metamorphism which generated crossitic amphibole.
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Earle, M. Mesozoic ophiolite and blue amphibole on Timor and the dispersal of eastern Gondwanaland. Nature 282, 375–378 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/282375a0
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