Field and geochemical characteristics of Mesoarchean to Neoarchean volcanic rocks in the Storø greenstone belt, SW Greenland: Evidence for accretion of intra-oceanic volcanic arcs

Precambrian Research

Volumn 184, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 24-42

  Ordonez Calderon, J C ^a,b   Polat, A ^a,c   Fryer, B J ^a,c   Gagnon, J E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amphibolites; Archean; Greenstone belt; Island arc tholeiites; Supra subduction zone

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; AMPHIBOLITE; ANORTHOSITE; ARCHEAN; BASALT; GABBRO; GNEISS; GREENSTONE BELT; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISLAND ARC; MAFIC ROCK; METAMORPHISM; PARTIAL MELTING; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THOLEIITE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 78650232962     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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