Comment on "A Vestige of Earth's Oldest Ophiolite"

The claim by Furnes et al . (Reports, 23 March 2007, p. 1704) that Greenland metavolcanic rocks require Paleoarchean sea-floor spreading is incompatible with their own data. The purported sheeted dikes have the composition of pyroxenitic komatiite and could not have fed the adjacent ferroandesitic p...

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Published in:Science
Main Author: Hamilton, Warren B.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2007
Subjects:
Furnes
Greenland
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1144931
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1144931
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spelling craaas:10.1126/science.1144931 2024-06-09T07:46:21+00:00 Comment on "A Vestige of Earth's Oldest Ophiolite" Hamilton, Warren B. 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1144931 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1144931 en eng American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science volume 318, issue 5851, page 746-746 ISSN 0036-8075 1095-9203 journal-article 2007 craaas https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1144931 2024-05-16T12:54:30Z The claim by Furnes et al . (Reports, 23 March 2007, p. 1704) that Greenland metavolcanic rocks require Paleoarchean sea-floor spreading is incompatible with their own data. The purported sheeted dikes have the composition of pyroxenitic komatiite and could not have fed the adjacent ferroandesitic pillow lavas. Neither type has ophiolitic analogs, and both are likely ensialic. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland AAAS Resource Center (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Furnes ENVELOPE(15.674,15.674,67.214,67.214) Greenland Science 318 5851 746 746
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