Earliest part of Earth's stratigraphic record: A reappraisal of the >3.7 Ga Isua (Greenland) supracrustal sequence

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-46

  Rosing, Minik T ^a,b   Rose, Nicholas M ^a   Bridgwater, David ^a,b   Thomsen, Heidi S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

BANDED IRON FORMATIONS; GREENLAND; INTRUSIVE ROCKS; OCEANIC ENVIRONMENTS; PROTOLITHS; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCKS; WEST GREENLAND;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BANDED IRON FORMATION; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; METASOMATISM; PROTOLITH; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCK; ARCHAEAN; BASALT; STRATIGRAPHY; SUPRACRUSTAL SEQUENCE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; ISUA;

EID: 0029769220     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0043:EPOESS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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