Arc-generated blocks with crustal sections in the North Atlantic craton of West Greenland: crustal growth in the Archean with modern analogues

BF Windley, AA Garde - Earth-Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
The ca. 700 km long, Archean craton of West Greenland consists of six Meso–Neoarchean
(ca. 3000–2720 Ma) shear zone—bounded crustal blocks that display similar cross-sections; …

A review of structural patterns and melting processes in the Archean craton of West Greenland: Evidence for crustal growth at convergent plate margins as opposed to …

A Polat, L Wang, PWU Appel - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Archean craton of West Greenland consists of many fault-bounded Eoarchean
to Neoarchean tectonic terranes (crustal blocks). These tectonic terranes are composed …

Plate tectonics began in Neoproterozoic time, and plumes from deep mantle have never operated

WB Hamilton - Lithos, 2011 - Elsevier
Archean, Paleoproterozoic, and Mesoproterozoic rocks, assemblages, and structures differ
greatly both from each other and from modern ones, and lack evidence for subduction and …

[HTML][HTML] Corundum formation by metasomatic reactions in Archean metapelite, SW Greenland: Exploration vectors for ruby deposits within high-grade greenstone …

C Yakymchuk, K Szilas - Geoscience Frontiers, 2018 - Elsevier
Corundum (ruby-sapphire) is known to have formed in situ within Archean metamorphic
rocks at several localities in the North Atlantic Craton of Greenland. Here we present two …

Field and geochemical characteristics of Mesoarchean to Neoarchean volcanic rocks in the Storø greenstone belt, SW Greenland: evidence for accretion of intra …

JC Ordóñez-Calderón, A Polat, BJ Fryer… - Precambrian …, 2011 - Elsevier
The Storø greenstone belt, southern West Greenland, consists of thrust-imbricated slices of
Mesoarchean (> 3060Ma) and Neoarchean (ca. 2800Ma) mafic to ultramafic volcanic rocks …

[HTML][HTML] Selective metasomatism of ultramafic cumulates within Archean supracrustal sequences

L Zhang, S Basak, D Zakharov, K Szilas - Geoscience Frontiers, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Neoarchean Storø Supracrustal Belt in SW Greenland comprises a sequence
of mature quartzite, metapelite, amphibolite, and ultramafic rocks that underwent amphibolite …

Mesoarchaean aluminous rocks at Storø, southern West Greenland: new age data and evidence of premetamorphic seafloor weathering of basalts

K Szilas, AA Garde - Chemical Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Metamorphosed Meso-to Neoarchaean supracrustal rocks in the central part of the
island of Storø (Nuuk region, southern West Greenland), show field-and geochemical …

Aluminous gneiss derived by weathering of basaltic source rocks in the Neoarchean Storø Supracrustal Belt, southern West Greenland

K Szilas, K Maher, DK Bird - Chemical Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
The origin of amphibolite-facies aluminous gneiss from the gold-hosting Neoarchean Storø
Supracrustal Belt in the Nuuk region of southern West Greenland is investigated in this …

New zircon ages from the Tasiusarsuaq terrane, southern West Greenland

T Næraa, A Scherstén - GEUS Bulletin, 2008 - geusbulletin.org
In the last three field seasons the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) has
undertaken mapping in the south-eastern part of the Nuuk region in southern West …

Re–Os and U–Pb constraints on gold mineralisation events in the Meso-to Neoarchaean Storø greenstone belt, Storø, southern West Greenland

A Scherstén, K Szilas, RA Creaser, T Næraa… - Precambrian …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Storø greenstone belt in Godthåbsfjord, southern West Greenland consists of
juxtaposed rock units of different age and origin, and hosts gold mineralisation that is …