Isua supracrustal belt (Greenland)-A vestige of a 3.8 Ga suprasubduction zone ophiolite, and the implications for Archean geology

Lithos

Volumn 113, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 115-132

  Furnes, Harald ^a   Rosing, Minik ^b   Dilek, Yildirim ^c   de Wit, Maarten ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Archean oceanic crust and tectonics; Isua supracrustal belt; Ophiolites; Suprasubduction zone magmatism

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE; ARCHEAN; GEODYNAMICS; MAGMATISM; OCEANIC CRUST; OPHIOLITE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCK; TECTONIC SETTING; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 70350221709     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.03.043     Document Type: Article

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