∼3,850 Ma tonalites in the Nuuk region, Greenland: Geochemistry and their reworking within an Eoarchaean gneiss complex

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 385-408

  Nutman, Allen P ^a,b   Bennett, Vickie C ^a   Friend, Clark R L ^c   Horie, Kenji ^d,e   Hidaka, Hiroshi ^e  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c University of Hiroshima ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crustal evolution; Eoarchaean; Greenland; Itsaq Gneiss Complex; Nd isotopes; Tonalites; Zircons

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMA; MIGMATITE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; ORTHOGNEISS; SHRIMP DATING; TONALITE; ZIRCON;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; NUUK;

EID: 34548243325     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-007-0199-3     Document Type: Article

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