A mid-Archaean island arc complex in the eastern Akia terrane, Godthåbsfjord, southern West Greenland

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 565-579

  Garde, Adam A ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; ISLAND ARC; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; RECRYSTALLIZATION; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCK; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT; ZIRCON;

ARCTIC; GODTHABSFJORD; GREENLAND;

EID: 34248210758     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492005-107     Document Type: Article

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