New age (ca 2970Ma), mantle source composition and geodynamic constraints on the Archean Fiskenæsset anorthosite complex, SW Greenland

Chemical Geology

Volumn 277, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-20

  Polat, Ali ^a   Frei, Robert ^b,c   Scherstén, Anders ^d   Appel, Peter W U ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anorthosite; Archean; Fisken sset Complex; Geochronology; Isotopes; SW Greenland

Indexed keywords

ANORTHOSITE; ARCHEAN; AVERAGE GROWTH; CRUSTAL ROCKS; GEODYNAMIC MODELS; GRANODIORITE; GREENLAND; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; ISLAND ARC; MANTLE SOURCE; NEW AGE; OCEANIC ISLANDS; ORTHOGNEISSES; PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN; PB ISOTOPES; RECRYSTALLIZATIONS; REGRESSION LINES; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECTONO-THERMAL EVENT; TONALITE; U-PB ZIRCON; ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS; XENOCRYSTS; ZIRCON AGE;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEODYNAMICS; ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; ZIRCON;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AGE DETERMINATION; ANORTHOSITE; ARCHEAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEODYNAMICS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MANTLE SOURCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECRYSTALLIZATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 77956615577     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.06.016     Document Type: Article

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