ABSTRACT: This article aims to discuss and criticise questions evolving from the age of emplacement and, processes through which ophiolitie melanges are formed. The following points seem, relevant in respect to existing controversies. 1. The nature of the process of melange formation, has not yet `been clearly understood. Sedimentary roeks-that have been deposited after` the emplacement of ophiolites` may have been tectonized resulting in block formation. Thus ages obtained from blocks will indicate .an earlier age of emplacement of`"ophiolites. *` 2. Ophiolites cannot yield pebbles to the shallow shelf deposits during the process of obduction. Thus detritics containing ophiolitie pebbles must be underlain (or be adjacent to ophiolitie outcrops on the continent side) by ophiolitie rocks. 3. The term. "Ophiolitie melange" is used as a genetic term despite its undoubtable descriptive nature, Melanges may not necessarily consist of roks belonging to the same tectonic environment. An ophillitie melange may contain volcanic rocks of continental. . characte as- well as sedimentary rocks deposited after the emplacement. Mapping of such tectonic units result in fatal mistakes in interpretations leading to geotectonic models. 4, `Working `hypotheses particularly the closure of a Mesosoic oceahic crust during late Cretaceous results in unnoticing critical and important contradictions., It may be concluded that ophiolite emplacement is Pre^Mesosoic in age and possibly much earlier.