Early Archaean processes and the Isua Greenstone Belt, West Greenland

Precambrian Research

Volumn 126, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 173-179

  Appel, Peter W U ^a   Moorbath, Stephen ^b   Touret, Jacques L R ^c,d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; GREENSTONE BELT;

CONFERENCE PAPER; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGY; GREENLAND; ROCK; VOLCANO;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; ISUA GREENSTONE BELT;

EID: 0346220333     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(03)00093-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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