Origin of Mesoarchaean arc-related rocks with boninite/komatiite affinities from southern West Greenland

Lithos

Volumn 144-145, Issue , 2012, Pages 24-39

  Szilas, Kristoffer ^a,b,c   Næraa, Tomas ^a   Scherstén, Anders ^d   Stendal, Henrik ^e   Frei, Robert ^b,f   van Hinsberg, Vincent J ^g   Kokfelt, Thomas F ^a   Rosing, Minik T ^c,f  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e Geology Department   (Greenland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaean; Greenland; Nunatak 1390; Supracrustal belts; Ultramafic rocks

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BONINITE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISLAND ARC; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; KOMATIITE; MAFIC ROCK; MANTLE SOURCE; NUNATAK; PARTIAL MELTING; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCK; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 84859929885     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2012.03.023     Document Type: Article

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