Protoliths of the 3.8-3.7 Ga Isua greenstone belt, West Greenland

Precambrian Research

Volumn 105, Issue 2-4, 2001, Pages 129-141

  Myers, J S ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early Archaean; Greenland; Greenstone belt; Protolith interpretation; Tectonic evolution

Indexed keywords

CARBONIC ACID; TALC; TREMOLITE;

ARCHEAN; BASALT; METAMORPHISM; PROTOLITH; SCHIST; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEOLOGY; GREENLAND; ROCK; SEDIMENT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0035977553     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(00)00108-X     Document Type: Article

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