Palaeoproterozoic and Archaean gneiss complexes in northern Greenland: Palaeoproterozoic terrane assembly in the High Arctic

Precambrian Research

Volumn 161, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 419-451

  Nutman, Allen P ^a,b   Dawes, Peter R ^c   Kalsbeek, Feiko ^c   Hamilton, Mike A ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early Precambrian terranes; Inglefield Mobile Belt; Magmatic arc; Metasediments; Northern Greenland; Plutonic rocks; SHRIMP U Pb zircon dating; Sm Nd model ages

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE; MAGMATISM; MAPPING; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENT; MICA; ORTHOGNEISS; PLUTONIC ROCK; PROTEROZOIC; SHRIMP DATING; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN]; CANADA; GREENLAND; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 39049168671     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2007.09.006     Document Type: Article

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