Craton formation in Late Archean subduction zones revealed by first Greenland eclogites

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1103-1106

  Tappe, Sebastian ^a   Smart, Katie A ^a   Pearson, D Graham ^a   Steenfelt, Agnete ^b   Simonetti, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; COMPLEMENTARY RELATIONSHIP; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; DEEP ROOTS; ECLOGITES; GEOLOGIC ENVIRONMENT; GRANITOIDS; GREENLAND; MAGMATISMS; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MANTLE PLUME; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEANIC CRUST; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PROTOLITHS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; WEST GREENLAND;

EUROPIUM; GALLIUM; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; REFRACTORY MATERIALS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

MELTING;

ARCHEAN; BASALT; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRATON; ECLOGITE; EUROPIUM; GARNET; GRANITOID; KIMBERLITE; MAGMATISM; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRACE ELEMENT; XENOLITH;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 80955123677     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32348.1     Document Type: Article

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